Re: Electrification of the rail north of Broadmeadows?
Rod (@bigpond.com)
Sun, 01 Feb 1998 01:37:42 +1100
Michael Walker wrote:
>
> Rod wrote:
> >
> > Reuben Farrelly <reuben@werple.net.nospam.au> wrote in article <6ap1m2$1br$1@eplet.mira.net.au>...
> > > Incidentally, does V/Line get any sort of cut from the Met Zone2 tickets
> > > that people use to travel out to Sunbury and back? Or does the Met take all
> > > the income from this line?
> > >
> > > Reuben
> > >
> > >
> > The service is a MET service, therefore the fares are theirs! They pay V\Line Pass to run it for them
> > Rod Young
> What about services that stop at the stations and continue on as a Vline
> service?
> eg Kyneton services that stop Sydenham to Sunbury, Ballarat / Bacchus
> Marsh services that stop Sunshine to Melton.
Yes what about them?
The Met seem to run any service that can be used by commuters too and
from the City of Melbourne on a daily basis.
Stony Point, Warragul,Bacchus Marsh,Craigeburn and Kyneton are
definitely all Met [ I also think up to Broadford and possibly
Seymour...Ballarat too maybe].....V/Line are contracted to supply "X"
no. bums on seats,,and it doesnt matter if some of those bums travel on
V/Line Services. [Excuse the bad pun] Incidently, V/Line dont get paid
for crush loads, so the Met do well out of people standing...now you
know why nobody up there wants to put bigger trains on! or improve the
sevice!
Cheers
Rod Young
Remember use the trains as ofton as you like, it annoys the hell out of
the bosses and the Poli's. No matter how bad the service, the equipment,
and the treatment you get from the groundstaff, you keep coming back!