Passenger compliance on a few services was 100% although patronage was much lower than I would have expected. Many people are less enthusiastic about the prospect of wearing an uncomfortable face mask than the government may hope they would be, and hence this mandate serves as a deterrent to making...

I noticed on Tripview last night that there looked to be a quite intensive frequency of additional B1/BN1 services running from Wynyard or North Sydney to Mona Vale during the early hours of this morning, around one trip every 4 minutes. Surprised that given the current lockdown in the Northern Beac...

Can't see full duplication of the Richmond line being a priority for a very long time, although the line as far as Vineyard will service new estates built within the North West Growth Area that will be developed over coming years, hence duplicating the line as far as the existing crossing station at...

They're now showing under the alerts for every line, except for T4/SCO, that trains will be running to a weekend timetable for the first full week of January. I presume this has something to do with the Harbour Bridge trackwork: Trains run to a weekend timetable UPDATED 15 Dec 16:09 Mon 4 Jan 02:00 ...

For the role that it plays as a the public transport service for the area, and for the wider Northern Beaches area, the Manly Ferry has a frequency similar to a local suburban bus route. Never runs more often than 30 minutely, drops back to 45 minutely after 8pm and waits until well after the sun ha...

I noticed recently that on the northern section of route 675 between Richmond and Windsor via the RAAF Base, for most of the route whilst there are bus stops marked on the map, there is no actual signage on the ground to indicate that the bus stops there. There's also a section within the suburb of ...

Wasn't a great day yesterday for the Southern Highlands line. There was a signalling issue at Goulburn in the morning, which led to delays of 25 minutes to services because northbound trains had to run on the down line between Goulburn and Medway Junction. Then later on an Endeavour set travelling n...

Senior Bus Operators who can drive articulated buses are paid more? So maybe TSA reducing costs like this? No idea about for Transit Systems (could even be exactly the same or completely different), but for STA drivers at least, there is an additional allowance of something like $22 per shift payab...

Trains in Perth drop back to 30 minute frequencies from as early as around 7:00pm, depending on which line, direction and day of the week you're referring to. I'm not sure if the Perth CBD is still deserted at night like it used to be, but that's still a significant downgrade compared to even Sydney...

One of the 6 car sets was seen at Lawson on Sunday night It made a visit to Lithgow on Sunday evening, which was it's first trial run that far west, and the first visit of any double deck electric other than a V set to Lithgow. There are a number of videos floating around on Youtube channels of it.

Strange, this was a planned rail replacement bus service, yet they didn't draw out lines to ensure people queued up 1.5m apart? Don't bus marshalls and management know the basis of WHS? It's everyone's responsibility to ensure a healthy and safe workplace, and what do they do? Just let everyone scr...

Unless people are boarding at Central Coast stations and alighting at Eastwood, then there is no justification for those trains to be stopping there. Another stop that could be debated is Blacktown for Blue Mountains services, as whilst it is a major centre and an interchange, it doesn't appear to b...

Well let me tell you, as someone who actually LIVES in Sydney and uses the trams way more than you do, a total 38 minute journey time is NOT THAT BAD! It only takes 50 minutes (off-peak) to drive to Circular Quay from a property that I own 50km away in the Hawkesbury district, although sadly it cos...

The Mandurah line is still an all stops suburban service until Warnbro. It is only the last of the 12 stops at Mandurah that could be considered out of Perth, and would only account for a small part of the line's overall 21 million passenger journeys. That last gap between Warnbro and Mandurah is f...

That is funny because i would feel safer That's a bit of a false sense of security, as the primary benefit of wearing a mask is it significantly reduces the risk of you spreading COVID-19 to other people. It doesn't remove most of the risk of you getting it from someone else. Most of the trains tha...

eddy wrote: ↑Fri Aug 28, 2020 2:17 pm Wonder if more people would use the train if masks were compulsory https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australi ... p-BB18rqGc

I'd be less likely to use public transport in that case.

There were plans at one stage when I was a suburban guard, that The Richmond Branch and Toongabbie, Pendle Hill, Wentworthville would all become T5 only. The theory being that you can have a theoretical 3 min frequency Penrith to Hornsby via Central in the peak, with all T9 terminating at Sydney Te...

On the Opal website, it still quotes that "morning peak travel times can vary for some Intercity stations, depending on where you tap on", but that line links to this page , which no longer has any mention of different off-peak times for specific stations. I presume there must no longer be any exemp...

Southern XPT services have already started terminating at Albury until further notice due to the border closure, with no replacement service provided south of there. At least this means that they will actually run on time more often than not, on the return journey to Sydney. Refer to https://transpo...

I had a play around with the booking site, and there seems to be supplementary coaches for all Canberra Xplorer services, substituting for train services the same way as weekend trackwork coaches would - eg I can book a trip from Tarago to Bundanoon on a supplementary coach if I want to. Surprised t...

At Central this morning, I was chatting to the guard on the Canberra XPL. I joked about the small number of passengers on board, and he stated that only 32 passengers are carried and any overflow are carried in coaches. Running overflow coaches only seems to be something that has been put on for th...

It would be a safety hazard if people were to be intentionally locked in their individual carriage and unable to move to other parts of the train, especially in the event of an emergency.

I noticed one of these extra train services operating yesterday, being the 9:50am Macarthur to City via Sydenham, running with a K set, which looks to be the only extra morning inbound service on the T8 line. It makes for a very frequent service out of Campbelltown for a brief period, with inbound s...

I seem to recall this was previously discussed, with the explanation being this was to cater for University students, given Universities typically do not observe state or territory public holidays... Would search to double-check my claims but that doesn't seem to be working quite right at the momen...

Is this an error, am I reading this wrong, or does the Sydney Metro seriously operate a 4 minute peak frequency on public holidays!? :shock: https://transportnsw.info/documents/timetables/93-M-Sydney-Metro-North-West-20200105.pdf If that timetable is to be believed, I'll be able to turn up at Tallaw...