Re: NSW - Is it time for one timetable?

[ROBERT SCHROEDER <bobschroeder@optushome.com.au>]

Are you being serious or is this another Joke posting?
Obviously city stations would have very frequent trains if all
suburban stations were serviced every fifteen minutes.


On Fri, 29 Sep 2000 12:35:23 +1100, David Johnson
<trainman@ozemail.com.au> wrote:

>ROBERT SCHROEDER wrote:
>
>> Please use your brains! There are a large number of routes going
>> through these stations and some fast and some all stations from each
>> route.
>> As someone else pointed out, on some routes it would be better than
>> current peak hour service.
>>
>
>Just clarifying a point you made. :)  I'm sure with creative timetabling a 15
>minute service could be achieved to all stations.  You would have to have trains
>terminating at Wynyard off the shore, or it would muck it all up reducing the
>service to 2 every 15 minutes at Town Hall.  I'm not sure how they would run the
>ESR - if you had one train every 15 minutes going around the Silly Circus,
>trains on the ESR would double the number of trains at Town Hall to one every
>7.5 minutes.  That could wreck everything!  They could always run non stop from
>Sydenham to Martin Place.  On the Carlingford line, they could still have one
>train every 15 minutes, but it would have to be going a different direction each
>time.  Then again, that takes up Clyde's quota for the quarter hour, so no other
>trains could stop there!
>
>>
>>
>>
>> >ROBERT SCHROEDER wrote:
>> Sydney should copy and provide a 15 minute off peak service to all
>> >> stations on the network
>
>> On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 03:00:41 +1100, David Johnson
>> <trainman@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
>> >So Central and Town Hall get one train every 15 minutes?