Re: Tangaras in Melbourne

Customer Services, Translib Pty. Ltd. (enquiry@translib.com.au)
Tue, 14 Apr 1998 11:04:33 +1000

Roderick Smith wrote:

> The sole four-car set is still in use. It is not called a Tangara in
> Melbourne, and isn't simply a Tangara on bg: it was built to a lower
> and
> narrower profile, involving significant reengineering. It runs mainly
> on
> Blackburn local services in both peaks Mon.-Fri. The government won't
> pay
> for more trains, and the PTC supremo didn't like double deck. Given
> that
> the Frankston loop is so saturated that PTC had to remove Sandringham
> trains from it, increasing the route availability and running more dd
> trains would make great sense, then *all* trains could run via the
> loop,
> solving many problems at the recently-reduced Flinders St station.

Just a reminder that up Sandringham trains on Saturdays and Sundays are
now running via the City Loop.

Cheers,

I.C.

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