Re: "customers" demand an extra carriage

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

Take a look at the Main North for example. Off peak trains are often fully
loaded by the time it gets to Strathfield!

"Roy Marshall" <marsh@zip.com.au> wrote in message
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| With the extra patronage (I believe I read that it was up 20% on some
| lines?) there must come a point where extra cars are built to actually
| increase the fleet rather than just replace worn out equipment as the
| Millennium Cars seem to be planned for. As a regular commuter from
| Campbelltown to the City each day it is easy to see how much more
| crowded the trains are becoming, and saturation point with more people
| leaving their cars at home due to high petrol prices, is going to come
| sooner rather than later.
|
| Cheers Roy
|
| Hunslet wrote:
| >
| > G'day.
| >
| > To provide an "extra carriage", it would be necessary to provide a
minimum of two
| > cars (a trailer and another power car).   These are simply NOT
available.   So
| > desperate is SRA for intercity rolling stock that suburban Tangaras are
being
| > provided on some "G" set outer-suburban rosters to release G sets for V
set
| > workings, particularly on the South Coast;  also, there is a serious
proposal to
| > convert the Contura  trailer car back to a normal passenger vehicle.
In
| > addition, the Glenbrook power car is to be rebuilt.   The intercity
rolling stock
| > situation will be made more difficult with the extension of
electrification from
| > Dapto to Kiama later this year.
| >
| > Hunslet.