Re: Feedback needed

["Roderick Smith" <rodsmith@werple.net.au>]

David's timetable is a major improvement for north coast NSW, and a major
reversal for southern NSW and Victoria.
It is written with a 1950s or 1930s philosophy.

While there is now a realisation that overnight trains can and should form
day ones,
railway management still refuses to provide connections in capitals.
The statement should not be that 'the connection is not guaranteed now, so
I have made it impossible'; the statement should be that 'connection is now
guaranteed'.

David's north-coast proposals echo my own: day and night services between
Sydney and Brisbane; with a late-night service to Murwillumbah forming an
afternoon turnround to be the first train into Sydney in  the morning.

David has done nothing to improve capacity south, and has made less
convenient times.
7.30 is awkwardly early for a Melbourne departure: the two main capitals do
have different cultures.  While I did use 7.30 in my own, I also had a
12.30.
The 7.30 ex Melbourne fails to connect to Brisbane; it does connect to
Murwillumbah, and hence Brisbane by bus.
The 21.30 from Melbourne, arriving in Sydney at 8.00, is too late to get to
work after a weekend south, and fails to connect to any morning departure
from Sydney.
Southbound, the 19.50 fails to connect from Brisbane.

While the Overland (a different operator) has had an improvement to its
schedule, it still arrives in Melbourne too late to be useful.


-- 
Regards
Roderick Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor