Re: [NSW] Underutilisation of rollingstock

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

Is there actually any sort of refurbishment going on at the moment apart
from the occasional installation of the a/c on the old K sets (and the
gluing of the hopper windows???)


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| "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?
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| 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.
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