>Terry Flynn (terry@cclru.unsw.edu.au) wrote:
>>City rail have recently changed its time table again.
>
>CityRail abandoned the Feb 1997 timetable because it didn't work. They
>simply went back to the previous one.
Which replaced a earlier timetable ect.
>>>If you increase the journey time, you will lose passengers. Why do you
>>>think passengers prefer the express trains? Because you get to where
>>>you're going _faster_. Who (other than railfans (: ) want's to spend
>>>all day getting to where they're going?
Again the main restriction on travelling time in this most cases is
trackwork, not locomotive power. Don't forget the Commet at only
1000HP.
>>1800 HP for 4 car trains using steam era track geometry is not going
>>to make a sigificently faster service than road, only keep costs high.
>
>It's still faster than driving at legal speeds, and more relaxing. V/Line
>was running at about 185,000 passenger journeys per year on the line. It's
>now over 300,000. These extra passengers must have come from somewhere.
So why use 1800HP and waste fuel. I suppose it dosen't matter, the
Kermit government will pay for the extra fuel cost to make sure this
privatisation appears to work.
Probably more properganda, or the PTC ran down the service to save
money, and to make the privatisation look good, as their political
masters directed.
>>Privatisation will not work in Australia because transport costs are
>>artifically kept low due to government funding.
>Road transport costs are kept artifically low, and rail transport costs
>are artifically high. Enterprises such as the Southern Cross Express may
>have worked had rail access been available at a similar cost to road.
More fairy land crap.
>>Queensland and NSW
>>governments care for their railways, otherwise they get voted out of
>>government.
>
>Cunnamulla, Quilpie and Winton lost their passenger services. Forsayth and
>Dirranbandi are slightly different cases, but also lost their mixed trains.
All relicks from the past with minimal demand. On the other hand QR is
expanding its passenger railways to were the demand is , the Gold
Coast, just redirecting resorces.
>Did the Victorian government get voted out at the last election?
It is as good at propaganda as you are when it comes to privatisation.