Re: [NSW] September 2001 timetable and Millennium train delivery

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

"Paul Jones" <zifnab_spam_@goconnect.net> wrote in message
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> >
> > That then raises the question of cause and effect. If the patronage is
> > insufficient to justify more services, is it because the hourly
> > service does not encourage people to use it? Would a more frequent
> > service mean increased patronage?
>
> More frequent service from Riverstone to Richmond is needed for sure. As
for
> patronage, the other night I boarded a train at Parramatta about 6:30pm
and
> I was lucky to be able to physically enter the train. I didn't even get a
> seat till it got to Quakers Hill (where 1/3 of the train emptied). It was
> still quite full after it left Riverstone. Even in off-peak on the odd
> occasion when we get a 4 car set it is usually packed before it gets to
> Riverstone (City bound)

You get 4-car trains in the off peak on the Richmond line?
I think that'd be the weekend, but what about the K sets that run there?
many off peak City-Richmond services are 8-car K sets (generalising, they're
really no different from 8 car S sets according to the working TT, it just
so happens that West grabs a large share of the K sets that are available!)