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- Mon Mar 01, 2021 2:03 pm
- Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
- Topic: STA Observations 2021
- Replies: 99
- Views: 10905
Re: STA Observations 2021
Does appear to be a bit of a vanity exercise, a simple ‘masks on’ sign in the windscreen would be more effective not to mention cheaper. Am in Canberra at the moment and as if Covid didn’t exist here, no one wearing masks, randoms sitting next to each other etc, and although rear door only in theory...
- Sat Feb 20, 2021 4:28 pm
- Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
- Topic: NSW Electric Bus Plan
- Replies: 166
- Views: 17555
Re: NSW Electric Bus Plan
The procurement panel https://www.transport.nsw.gov.au/operations/buses-and-coaches/tfnsw-bus-procurement-panel has not yet been updated to include the Bustech electric bus. If TfNSW contracted operators have placed orders, then it is on the list seeing that TfNSW will be the owner of these vehicle...
- Fri Feb 19, 2021 7:04 pm
- Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
- Topic: CBD & South East Light Rail
- Replies: 5621
- Views: 879570
Re: CBD & South East Light Rail
And which part of the platforms tends to be covered?
- Fri Feb 19, 2021 6:09 pm
- Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
- Topic: CBD & South East Light Rail
- Replies: 5621
- Views: 879570
Re: CBD & South East Light Rail
I find it hard to assess how full they are when you're riding on them because it's divided into two and you have no knowledge of what happens in the other car. It's also difficult for a crowd to adjust itself by moving along the tram, so you can get one car completely overcrowded and the other car ...
- Thu Feb 18, 2021 11:16 pm
- Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
- Topic: NSW Railway Observations 2021
- Replies: 71
- Views: 7507
Re: NSW Railway Observations 2021
The last few services of the night to Richmond are scheduled to dwell for 2 minutes at both Riverstone and Clarendon, despite not crossing anything on the single line at either of those points. Crossings with empty workings perhaps, or maybe to maintain a clock-face timetable? There'll be a plausib...
- Thu Feb 18, 2021 7:23 pm
- Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
- Topic: NSW Railway Observations 2021
- Replies: 71
- Views: 7507
Re: NSW Railway Observations 2021
The majority of the V sets stable overnight out of Sydney, it is between the peaks that they are in Sydney in greater numbers. Probably safe to assume that the stock off diagrams that end at Gosford or Wyong will stable at Kangy Angy. Will require a rethink of the current diagrams that see most serv...
- Thu Feb 18, 2021 11:04 am
- Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
- Topic: NSW Railway Observations 2021
- Replies: 71
- Views: 7507
Re: NSW Railway Observations 2021
Roster changes:- 11 x 8B set Rosters added to the current 22. 6 x 8C set Rosters deleted. 4 x 8K set Rosters deleted, reducing to a total of 13. Appears to confirm that the current batch of B sets being delivered are not Growth Trains as was stated when they were ordered, but like-for-like replacem...
- Wed Feb 17, 2021 7:30 am
- Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
- Topic: Jan 2021 bus changes - STA region 7
- Replies: 338
- Views: 21801
Re: Jan 2021 bus changes - STA region 7
Bit like world class, just means registered in a tax haven.Swift wrote: ↑Always sceptical of the use of the word wonderful and, lately, amazing.
- Tue Feb 16, 2021 6:48 pm
- Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
- Topic: NSW Railway Observations 2021
- Replies: 71
- Views: 7507
Re: NSW Railway Observations 2021
There often is a plausible reason for these things, just that some on this board don't bother to consider this and just assume the worst.
- Tue Feb 16, 2021 6:45 pm
- Forum: Discussion - Adelaide / SA
- Topic: Broadspectrum
- Replies: 4
- Views: 652
- Sun Feb 14, 2021 7:04 am
- Forum: Discussion - Adelaide / SA
- Topic: Broadspectrum
- Replies: 4
- Views: 652
Re: Broadspectrum
Broadspectrum didn't takeover Transfield, it was just a rebranding.
- Sat Feb 13, 2021 4:34 pm
- Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
- Topic: SETS C set tour to Mt Victoria
- Replies: 44
- Views: 3096
Re: SETS C set tour to Mt Victoria
Nuff said. While there were instances of K sets operating with S sets, don't think K sets (as in the Camshaft sets) ever operated with C sets. The C sets, while structurally a K set with a fibreglass nose, mechanically they were closer to the Tangaras.Fleet Lists wrote: ↑According to Wikipedia...
- Sat Feb 13, 2021 10:57 am
- Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
- Topic: Sydney Metro - Tallawong to Bankstown
- Replies: 4484
- Views: 784504
Re: Sydney Metro - Tallawong to Bankstown
Future of T3 post the Metro opening has its own thread.
- Sat Feb 13, 2021 10:51 am
- Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
- Topic: SETS C set tour to Mt Victoria
- Replies: 44
- Views: 3096
Re: SETS C set tour to Mt Victoria
All 14 were targeted as K sets when delivered in 1986/87. They operated as such until retargeted as C sets in 1989.
- Tue Feb 09, 2021 10:30 pm
- Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
- Topic: NSW Railway Observations 2021
- Replies: 71
- Views: 7507
Re: NSW Railway Observations 2021
The pair of tracks on the immediate right are part of the ARTC controlled Metropolitan Goods line from Botany to Enfield, the two lines branching off in the top right were part of the Rozelle line that was lifted in the early 2010s to make way for the IWLR extension from Lilyfield.
- Tue Feb 09, 2021 2:04 pm
- Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
- Topic: 2021 Easter Show
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1029
Re: 2021 Easter Show
As it is during school holidays this year will probably be able to be handled by TfNSW’s contracted operators without the need for subcontractors.
- Tue Feb 09, 2021 11:33 am
- Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
- Topic: 2021 Easter Show
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1029
Re: 2021 Easter Show
Can probably be assumed with capped attendance numbers there will be no show buses with just the enhanced rail service.
- Sun Feb 07, 2021 5:13 pm
- Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
- Topic: Headway Services
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1816
Re: Headway Services
Probably, just every other cross city service has been chopped in two recently.
- Sun Feb 07, 2021 12:31 pm
- Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
- Topic: SETS C set tour to Mt Victoria
- Replies: 44
- Views: 3096
Re: SETS C set tour to Mt Victoria
C sets are a fair bit heavier than the K sets. Saw a K set fresh out of overhaul at Maintrain recently, so it would appear that they will be around for a while yet. As to how long will depend on how it is decided to roll out the D sets, i.e. replace the V sets first or the H sets first, in turn allo...
- Sun Feb 07, 2021 12:25 pm
- Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
- Topic: Headway Services
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1816
Re: Headway Services
If you double the number of buses, you double the cost and still no guarantee that it won't happen. It's ultimately a balancing act, and from my observations, not a huge problem. In region 6, it happens on busy corridors such as Broadway, City Road and Parramatta Road where there are alternative bus...
- Sun Feb 07, 2021 12:16 pm
- Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
- Topic: Wiki page on Sydney’s (old) trams
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1038
Re: Wiki page on Sydney’s (old) trams
Other problem is now that journalism is becoming a dying profession, many articles just rely on easily available online sources such as Reddit, Wikipedia etc, so myths become accepted facts. And sadly it has carried across to some of the enthusiast publications here. I saw an example in a publicatio...
- Sun Feb 07, 2021 12:01 pm
- Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
- Topic: Headway Services
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1816
Re: Headway Services
You could double the number of buses and still the problem would happen. But as long as it is only happening on corridors where there are regular services, not really a problem.
- Sat Feb 06, 2021 4:03 pm
- Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
- Topic: Headway Services
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1816
Re: Headway Services
Overall buses now will be carrying lower average loads than they were 12 months ago, but that doesn't mean overcrowding doesn't occur. Bigger buses still have a higher operating cost than normal buses and it is often only for relatively small part of the journey that a bus is full. For example, if a...
- Sat Feb 06, 2021 2:09 pm
- Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
- Topic: Headway Services
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1816
Re: Headway Services
The main problem with focussing on headways rather than on the timetable is that, if you've planned the trip using the journey planner, it's pretty critical that each vehicle turns up at or very close to the time shown in the timetable. With the trend to interchange, resulting in journeys on multip...
- Fri Feb 05, 2021 1:16 pm
- Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
- Topic: NSW Electric Bus Plan
- Replies: 166
- Views: 17555
Re: NSW Electric Bus Plan
The events of the past 12 months have perhaps passed you by? I agree we have become far too dependent on China as a source of products that we used to manufacture. But to suggest that trade between the two nations is suddenly going to stop, and thus its buses become unavailable, is a bit far fetche...