Re: CityRail commits to improved service

["Brendan" <nadnerb_2000@nospam.start.com.au>]

The Swiss and the Japanese are neck and neck. Both manage highly punctual
services (I've experienced Tokyo's).

They both have little problems - The Swiss, that they do not have as
frequent long distance, and the Japanese, who have a niggling little problem
with earthquakes which can severly disrupt the system (even if there is no
damage, inspection has to be done).

I'd say though, that the Japanese are ahead.

"Hubert Lam" <hubert@imap4.com> wrote in message
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> Hong Kong must come third then. KCRC-East Rail has an average punctuality
of
> 99.7%; and it'd be bloody obvious if one of their trains didn't run--just
> look at how crowded the next one would be!!
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> "tony bailey" <mercuryworldtvl@one.net.au> wrote in message
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> > > I thought it was Switzerland.
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> > Dave-
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> > Definitely Japan!
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> > Switzerland probably second - but the Japanese are so far in front it is
> not
> > funny. If you find a line with something with VERY frequent services at
a
> > regular headway at a spot where the trains cross - you will generally
find
> > that they nearly always pass each other at the SAME spot - not near it
but
> > at the same spot!
> >
> > Modern Railways stated last year that apparently all track circuits and
> > point motors are duplicated!
> >
> > --
> > Tony Bailey
> > Mercury World Travel
> > Mercury Travel Books
> > mercuryworldtvl@one.net.au
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