The trains you catch will have more demand and more stops sure, but will also come more often. Hurstville all stops will come more often than every ten minutes when the signalling upgrades are over. So you won't be worse off The ESR can already run trains at sub 2.5-minute intervals, I regularly se...

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Assuming that it was seven kilometres that had its speed reduced from 160km/h to 115km/then that would have only added one minute to the journey time, if it were the full 20 kilometres from Blacktown to Penrith then it would be three minutes. And that is not factoring in the extra acceleration or d...

No, the trains I catch every day (all stations from Hurstville) will have two more stops added and given the density of Esrkinville in particular, once this starts I will be lucky to be able to get onto a train at Redfern in the evenings. I suspect I will have to start walking to Erskinville instea...

My dilemma is that these current projects (Digital systems & ATO) are going ahead but no emphasis is being brought to our attention about the about the entirely feasible track speed increases from current 115km/h limits (particularly where is previously existed , and possibly in areas where it ...

This latest update confirms that T8 services via Sydenham will continue to service St Peters and Erskineville in a staged process before they are permanently transferred to the T4 and Illawarra Line, although in the absence of T3, it will temporarily become an all day service to both stations when ...

I don't have any allegiance to the RTBU or any union for that matter, but you're overstating the influence they have on future rail planning, as distinct from operational factors which directly affect their members. I don't recall that they had much influence on the former Labor government's decisi...

I wonder if the fares would be as expensive as in the UK. That's something that the HSR protagonists conveniently ignore. If it ever does eventuate, they won't be charging the same fares applicable today to regional rail travel. It will be a premium fare, which is unlikely to recover operating cost...

Another mediocre attempt to justify this flawed project. It's never going to be justified, considering the distances and population density, not to mention the cost, along the route. Do I detect a shift in focusing on faster regional rail links, which may not be HSR in the accepted terminology, whic...

Just for reference purposes, in respect to those intermediate Stations mentioned above, currently:- Arncliffe and Banksia have - in Off-Peak: 2 services an hour, at Peak times: 6 services an hour, at Weekends: 2 services an hour. Carlton and Allawah have - in Off-Peak: 4 services an hour, at Peak t...

This latest update confirms that T8 services via Sydenham will continue to service St Peters and Erskineville in a staged process before they are permanently transferred to the T4 and Illawarra Line, although in the absence of T3, it will temporarily become an all day service to both stations when i...

Regards solving the missing service gap to Carlingford Court, what about an underground or subsurface bus only lane under both intersections (like the Edgecliff tunnel) leading to the shopping mall as well as a through road past the LR terminus for seamless flow of bus services past there? The 550 ...

GoA2 isn’t full automation, it is partial automation with a driver remaining in situ.....The union doesn’t decide what does and doesn’t happen, the government does. GoA2 is automation. It operates the train to its optimum performance. The presence of staff only has an influence on the operation of ...

I think any diversion to Eastwood would have likely seen Telopea and Carlingford stops removed which would mean those areas would have had to rely solely on buses. In the above map, that loop from Dundas to Epping then back to Dundas looks a little ridiculous without any justifiable context. If you...

It's not just more direct and shorter, Eastwood is far more suited as a commercial hub than Epping. Why the obsession with Epping being the growth centre? Probably because they were determined to use most of the Carlingford Line to allegedly save costs and promote development in Carlingford, but I'...

The further the metro travels, the more seats it needs per trip, a fact which you seem to ignore. The need for seating is a factor of journey time, not distance. On top of that, the number of trains per hour is what determines the number of seats on offer and metro services typically have a higher ...

If they ever extend the Bankstown metro to Liverpool, the trip would be no more than 40 minutes Liverpool to Central. The further the metro travels, the better it gets. This embarrassing (for the suburban system) fact is why metro opponents want to clip its wings by declaring that "metro is on...

Incidentally, you're assuming a lot of support for all these initiatives from the RTBU, an assumption that on past events is not a sound one. There'll end up being some devaluing compromise down the line, as has happened with the unfortunate NIF. It's a spurious argument that the RTBU somehow dicta...

You continue to peddle your false comparison of journey times of the metro with the existing slowed down Sydney Trains timetable, without acknowledging the improvements which will be made with the digital signalling and ATO upgrades. Comparisons with the Paris RER are also irrelevant. What else can...

There's all these railway-operation clues around for the taking and you really should look at them, rather than just have blind faith that the existing human-crewed double deckers can somehow achieve all these stellar objectives as they are. Their design and technology is simply against them. Wrong...

I haven't looked up the Paris RER Line A for several years but when last I did they had a pretty impressive throughput on their timetable. Mind you that's with 10 car DD's and three doors per car. How's it going in practice? The throughput of RER A is great, because they have so many people to move...

The performance will be further enhanced with the digital signalling and ATO upgrade which will no longer rely on driver operation other than starting the train from the station, monitoring the system and taking over manual control in an emergency. Is this increased performance expected as part of ...

When the PER was in the first design stage, it was proposed to lower the line from Rydalmere into Carlingford so that it had an underground station. I don't think the station was to be under the Court, but veered off to the east somehow. This was the original alignment for the Parramatta to Chatswo...

The thing that is overlooked in a comparison of the average speeds of the DD and metro trains is that the Waratahs for example have a design specification for acceleration/deceleration of 1.0 m/s/s and the Alstom metro trains of 1.1 m/s/s and 1.3 m/s/s for emergency braking. The Waratahs have been g...