Re: NSW - Is it time for one timetable?

["Hubert Lam" <hubert@imap4.com>]

It will be impossible for the entire Richmond line to have a minimum service
frequency of 15 min due to the single track sections.

<sarcasm> The Bankstown line has a very uniform 15 min frequency and is a
model that all other lines should follow </sarcasm>

"ROBERT SCHROEDER" <bobschroeder@optushome.com.au> wrote in message
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| 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.
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| On Fri, 29 Sep 2000 12:35:23 +1100, David Johnson
| <trainman@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
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| >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?
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