Re: New Met Train Timetable

Iming Chan (translib@netspace.net.au)
Thu, 26 Jun 1997 10:05:11 -0700

Peter Shute wrote:
>
> On Mon, 23 Jun 1997 11:32:27 -0700, Iming Chan
> <translib@netspace.net.au> wrote:
>
> >The main alterations as follows:
> >
> >* Burnley, Caulfield and Northern Loops will open upto one hour earlier
> >in the
> > morning on weekdays and more trains altered to run via the City Loop
> >to enable
> > through running at Flinders Street.
> >
> >* Build up of consists between peaks on Ringwood and Glen Waverley
> >lines
>
> What's a "consist"?
>
Copied "word-by-word" from the cover sheet of my Met Trains Metropolitan
Train Timetable (W.T.T.). I think what the Met Trains tries to say is a
number of empty cars will run just after the monring peak (to
outstations) and before the evening peak (to Flinders Street).

> >* Transposals at Flinders Street in preparation for JRP staging works
> >on weekdays
> > and weekends.
>
> What's a "transposal"?
>
Transpose! (Again, reproduced from the W.T.T. cover sheet).

I.C.