Re: XPT timetable feedback

["Dianne Lucas" <matt@smart.net.au>]

Why not just run the XPT through Strathfield, the suburban platforms at
Central, Chatswood and Hornsby, to provide a through service Melb -
Brisbane.  I know XPTs have been run through the city circle before, but is
there any reason fumes for example why a regular XPT could not use the North
Shore line and provide through Melb - Brisbane trains but also North Coast
Sydney boarding points at Southern Highlands, Campbelltown, Strathfield,
Sydney, Chatswood / St. Leonards, Hornsby, Gosford and Wyong? Again Southern
line trains to Melbourne picking up passengers at Gosford / Central Coast,
Hornsby, Chatswood / St. Leonards, Central, Strathfield, Campbelltown etc?
Surely this would only encourage patronage?

Also is there any reason why an XPT could not be run Central - Sutherland -
Wollongong - Robertson - Moss Vale - Melbourne and service Wollongong, NSW's
3rd biggest city with Interstate trains??


Eddie Oliver <eoliver@efs.mq.edu.au> wrote in message
3818542C.683EEBD6@efs.mq.edu.au">news:3818542C.683EEBD6@efs.mq.edu.au...
> Chris Brownbill wrote:
>
> > Not forgetting Geelong, where the Ghan and Overland call at North Shore.
> > How about until a couple of years ago, Toowoomba where the Westlander
called at
> > Willowburn.  Then there's Yass Junction and how about Walcha Road for
the
> > metropolis of Walcha.
>
> And we shouldn't forget Gular for Gulargambone, and Pokataroo for
> Collarenebri.
>
> Of course using Lidcombe as a Sydney "central" point would receive
> similar popular acclaim.
>
> While we're at it, I presume someone is about to suggest terminating
> interstate services into Melbourne at Somerton and Werribee, and the
> Brisbane long-distance services could terminate for an interchange with
> suburban trains at Yeerongpilly, Wulkuraka and Caboolture.
>
> And pigs might fly (or more likely the passengers would).
>
> Eddie Oliver