Re: New Livery for Melbourne Electric Trains????

[Mick Stock <mzs@bigpond.com>]

MarkBau1 wrote:
> 
> On a similar note I believe Hillside will get all the disc brake Comeng's and
> Bayside will get all the tread brake Comeng's. I'm sure the numbers wont
> overlap perfectly though.
> 
> Mark.

When is this likely to happen, and will it be strictly adhered to?  If
Hillside & Bayside end up NOT sharing trains, it would possibly solve
some timetabling problems. For example, the 7:35pm City to Lilydale used
to be made up of an ex Dandenong (Pakenham??) train, and quite often ran
10-15 mins late.  I've noticed that recently it appears that this train
now originates on one of the Burnley group lines (can someone confirm
this?), and now leaves Flinders St more-or-less on time.  If only they
would stop switching it from FS plat.3 to plat.4 though (and for no
apparent reason)....

Mick.