>Maurie Daly wrote:
>> The number of passengers requiring to travel on a daily basis between melb and
>> Adelaide is a function of the size of the two population centres, it has very
>> little to do with how fast the trains travel.
>> As an example , back in the 1970s we had 3 trains per day in both directions
>> between Melb and Sydney and two trains per day between Sydney and Brisbane.
>>
>> Now both lines run XPTs , which run the services many hours faster than their
>> predessors but in both cases we have less trains per day , not more.
>This is due to the lack of availabilty of trains, not due to a lack of passenger
>demand.
Only from the perspective of Countrylink.
There no reason why any other operator cannot run more passenger trains
between Melb - Sydney and Brisbane in competition to Countrylink if they so
choose to.
Even GSR or WCR or the PTC could run passenger trains if they wanted to, they
just dont want to , simply because it isnt economic to do so.
cheers
MD