Re: "customers" demand an extra carriage

[Roy Marshall <marsh@zip.com.au>]

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.