Re: Services on City Rail Interurbans

["Rod Gayford" <rjaygee@smartchat.net.au>]

Use the ample crew accommodation to put in vending machines. The crew would
still have one set of accommodation per 4 car set which is ample. The large
amount of crew accommodation is only a hangover from the days when inter
urban service were run by the country passenger division of the then NSWGR.
I also cannot see why Tangara's have so much crew accommodation. There is so
much wasted space. At least in red rattler days passengers could usually
travel in spare guards compartments.

Cheers

Rod Gayford
David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> Railway Rasputin wrote:
>
> > The setup of the trains would make it almost impossible to do.
> > With the trolley service how would you get it up and down steps?
> > With the buffet style, where woud you put it?
>
> It would have to go into the middle of the consist, as 8 cars is a long
way to
> walk through a train.  One idea might be to put a single deck dining car
between
> the two four car blocks allowing passengers to enter from each end.
>
> > And how would you power it?
>
> V sets have 415V motor/gens
>
> > Plus the services are now packed as it is.
>
> You would need to add a car.  You could not remove existing seating.  I
can't see
> it being viable on all stations commuter runs.  It could possibly work on
express
> commuter, or off-peak all-stations runs.
>
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