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Re: Booked out Melb XPTs
- Subject: Re: Booked out Melb XPTs
- From: "Michael Walker" <walker@hotkey.net.au>
- Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1999 22:47:09 +1000
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- Organization: Internet Primus
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>Reason being that Country Link some years ago decided to run a fixed
consist
>service statewide and bugger the heavy traffic days, you can go by bus, car
or
>fly but we don't want you.
>
Given the XPTs are loosely based on the British HSTs which are also a fixed
consist (or do they vary them?), how do the British cope with fluctuations
in passengers? Do they intersperse the fixed consist services with variable
consist services (ie loco and carriages) or is the volume of services such
that any slack can take up fluctuations in passenger numbers?