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

["Paul Jones" <zifnab_spam_@goconnect.net>]

"Hubert Lam" <hubert@imap4.com> wrote in message
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> "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)
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> 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!)

*Occasionally* we get one during the week. But most trains are 6-8 cars.
Even on the weekends we usually only get 8 car tangaras. (And the odd G set)


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