Re: [NSW] Underutilisation of rollingstock

[magilla gorilla <choochoo@spin.com>]

I think it was an extra 100 cars were gained by this

Tezza wrote:

> "Hubert Lam
> > From inspection of the 2000 Easter Show weekday working timetable (very
> > similar to the May 21 working timetable), ISTR many sector 3 G sets that are
> > stabled either at Hornsby car sheds, the yard or North Sydney tunnels from
> > late morning (say 11am) to mid afternoon (3-4pm).  This is also true to many
> > sector 1 T/G and sector 2 S/R sets.
> >
> > We have heard before that CityRail has the lack of rollingstock to run
> > additional services. From what I have seen over the past two weeks, there
> > has NOT been a lack of rollingstock (OK fair enough, some lines were
> > closed--but other lines had much higher frequencies than usual, e.g. North
> > Sydney to Gosford (not even in normal timetable), Central to Olympic Park
> > (very very high frequency).
> >
> > Was all this achieved because there were more drivers and guards during this
> > period, cleaning of trains could be done at stations (rather than being
> > stabled/at yards), or is there something more sneaky to it?
>
> Nothing sneaky. Apart from what you've mentioned, they brought forward all their maintenance and postponed other works to allow the
> extra trains to run. During normal off-peak times, there's no need to run many trains as those that do run are usually empty or near
> so.