> 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.
-- David Johnson CityRail Guard trainman@ozemail.com.au http://www.ozemail.com.au/~trainman/