Re: [Melb] New Hillside Timetable, interesting trains.

[Eddie Oliver <eoliver@efs.mq.edu.au>]

Christopher_Martin GORDON wrote:
> 
> Some interesting trains in the new timetable:
> The 1604 arrival at FSS (from ELT) forms empty cars to FSS via City Circle
> Loop (CCL) and then on arrival back at FSS forms 16:25 RWD train (which is
> missing from the public timetable)
> 
> I wonder if you could stay on this train for a nice ride around the CCL.
> 
> 1657 arrival at MCD forms empty cars to CHL, then as a revenue serivce
> from CHL to FSS (umm, another ride from MCD to CHL?)
> 
> 1701 arrival at EPP forms empty cars to CHL, then as a revenue service
> from CHL to FSS (again, another ride?)
> 
> The two empty car trains from FSS to CHL and back to VPK have been
> extended to HDB (still empty cars both ways).

I would have hoped that Hillside, being hopefully a more
customer-focused organisation than the Met, would have avoided the
idiocy of empty car movements that could actually convey passengers.
Does this imply that Hillside took on ex-Met staff and hasn't yet
indoctrinated them with customer service and public relations
principles?

Eddie Oliver