They run empty to Bondi and back.

Martin Place has been booked out since last year.

And one of those is no longer in use, notwithstanding the clear difference between a legacy railway and brand new infrastructure.

There is ample opportunity for interchange at Chatswood and Barangaroo. Would you remove the crossovers at Barangaroo and install new ones at Central? I am confident there would have been an analysis and reasons behind the placement of the points where they were placed.

What’s special about Central? Barangaroo will be a fine site to segregate the line and continue operations either side. Not going to have them everywhere.

They are supposed to do it two weeks before, but it is odd that sometimes they don’t do any announcement at all or do it on the day the changes come into effect.

Provided of course they are suitable for such routes (I.e.: height clearances).

There should be some room for rationalisation which would help provide an albeit small reduction in driver requirements in the area.

^ Temporary change due to a staff shortage in R14. This route was chosen most likely due to Warringah Mall tern is being close to R8 Keolis-Downer Brookvale Depot. I noticed that some of the route changes mentioned a ‘staff shortage’ as one of the reasons for route changes. I wonder if when there a...

With the same vehicles or others?

Might be this one? https://www.theleader.com.au/story/8532 ... and-shire/

It has been a sight seeing the odd STA livery bus running in region 13 recently because of some transfers across the Transit Systems regions.

One left Parramatta 10 minutes ago on 907.

The contract is changing over from Hillsbus to CDC.

To maintain cross-sector qualifications, although the area qualified is generally limited by depot location.

What is T4NSW and/or Sydney Trains doing wrong that prevents recovery, even partial recovery, after seven hours? Running too many trains. There comes a point when the delays are so high because of crew displacement that the only way to recover is to scrap the timetable and run shuttle services with...

I think this is the first one, but it makes sense, provided there is the space at Wynyard for them.

It is clear which side the sun shines on.

Exactly, the question is “who owns the fence”?

Looks like a rush job if you ask me, they obviously haven’t reviewed the docs before they were published.

They don’t have to because of the separate school term/school holiday timetables that are issued these days.

alleve wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 1:15 am

Swift wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2024 11:12 pm If the trains overshoot the mark, slam it into reverse. Have doors that only open when the doors align enough.

This is already what happens on the metro. No reason why Sydney Trains could not do the same

No, rules prohibit such action in most of the network.

That is a good question - https://www.theleader.com.au/story/8481 ... -shutdown/

Also consider timetables for a given line are generally built based on the slowest train on a given line, so benefits may not be seen immediately once commissioned. That would depend on how far away such technology is from full commissioning on that line.

Some late night services are timetabled to terminate and run empty from Chatswood. In a prior timetable, those trips ended at North Sydney but were extended to improve connections onto the Metro line. There is foreseeably no real demand for such trains to run in revenue through to Hornsby at that ti...

I’m sure most of the students can walk for ten minutes each way, not the significant impost some make believe it is and I’ve done the walk many times.

Try walking 30+ mins per way, then maybe we can talk.