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Y115
Station Master
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Location: Portland
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Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 7:05 am
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From today's Portland Observer:
"V/Line rules out passenger service.
V/Line has ruled out a supplementary passenger
rail service from Portland to Melbourne via Ararat.
The proposed service was discussed briefly at
a meeting last week in Melbourne between V/Line
management and Glenelg Shire mayor Geoff White.
It has also ruled out in the immediate future
increasing the number of services operating on the
Portland to Melbourne via Warrnambool route.
Cr White said V/Line had indicated rail carriages
on the Warrnambool line would be improved as
V/Locity trains were rolled out throughout the state."
Perhaps this will stop the endless waffling on about passenger trains to Portland. 
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Flatop
Chief Train Controller
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Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 8:39 am
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V/Line cannot run what they have now let alone running more services.They should be looking at there on time departures and arrivals.They are smeg when it comes to customer service.
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Wilfy2007
Chief Train Controller
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Location: N.S.W.
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Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 10:08 am
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| Y115 wrote: | From today's Portland Observer:
"V/Line rules out passenger service.
V/Line has ruled out a supplementary passenger
rail service from Portland to Melbourne via Ararat.
The proposed service was discussed briefly at
a meeting last week in Melbourne between V/Line
management and Glenelg Shire mayor Geoff White.
It has also ruled out in the immediate future
increasing the number of services operating on the
Portland to Melbourne via Warrnambool route.
Cr White said V/Line had indicated rail carriages
on the Warrnambool line would be improved as
V/Locity trains were rolled out throughout the state."
Perhaps this will stop the endless waffling on about passenger trains to Portland. |
Y115,
To you it may seem like endless waffling.
The above quote says no increase in services in the immediate future.
What about in 2 to 5 years when demand is greater.
Will it be Ok then to forecast that maybe in 2013 a service to Portland via Ararat will be needed because of increased demand, petrol prices and less cars due to the global recession which has now hit all over the world.
To predict what will happen in the future is very difficult.
With patronage increasing 60% in the past 2 years do you dare predict a 120% increase in 4 years being the past 2 years and the future 2 years, may not happen but it is a distinct possibility.
Interesting times ahead for all Railway Operators I am sure.
Regards,
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Y115
Station Master
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Location: Portland
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Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 10:40 am
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If people can't afford to drive in the next few years then I expect there will be extra services on the existing road/rail from Portland to Melbourne but highly unlikely to be from Portland via Ararat to Melbourne. Most of us who live here are quite happy with things the way they are now, while a few of us railfans would like to see more trains, common sense tells us that it's not going to happen.
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ZH836301
Chief Commissioner
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Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 5:52 pm
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| Wilfy wrote: | | With patronage increasing 60% in the past 2 years do you dare predict a 120% increase in 4 years being the past 2 years and the future 2 years, may not happen but it is a distinct possibility. |
Come on Wilfy, there aren't that many pensioners.
| Quote: | | Cr White said V/Line had indicated rail carriages on the Warrnambool line would be improved as V/Locity trains were rolled out throughout the state." |
This is interesting however - seems to hint at Vlocitys to Warrnambool (as there isn't really much better loco hauled rolling stock than what's already being run).
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alstom_888m
Chief Commissioner
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Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 5:57 pm
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It hints intercity VLocities elsewhere too...
Maybe the sets that don't have a 3rd car will get a First class with buffet car instead.
Reliable, Economical, Safe, By Rail.
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574M
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Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 7:48 pm
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| Y115 wrote: | | If people can't afford to drive in the next few years then I expect there will be extra services on the existing road/rail from Portland to Melbourne but highly unlikely to be from Portland via Ararat to Melbourne. Most of us who live here are quite happy with things the way they are now, while a few of us railfans would like to see more trains, common sense tells us that it's not going to happen. |
That, Y115, is a priori negative cynicism
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Somebody in the WWW
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Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 7:49 pm
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| 574M wrote: | | That, Y115, is a priori negative cynicism, and not common sense at all. |
You better tell us what is common sense then.
" The trains at Pennant Hills run roughly every half hour. Nobody in their right mind uses a service that shoddy. That so many do just proves how many dumb and/or desperate people there are in Sydney." - MrPC
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574M
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Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 7:54 pm
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Congratulations on your four years at Railpage Australia™, SITWWW.
Now, what is common sense?
Not offending the canons of proprietary behaviour.
Y115 was being cynical and saying he could not forsee any passenger service. wilfy cited some very, very interesting figures with regard to increases in patronage. Who knows what the future holds; I quite agree with wilfy and alstrom. Anything is possible.
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per1
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Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 10:06 pm
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And what is the reason?
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NottaGunzel
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fabricator
Deputy Commissioner
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Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 12:32 am
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Before we get too carried away with opening new passenger services using Vlocities, don't you think we should open Bombardier a new factory to produce more of said railcars ?
Right now its looking more and more like the one thing this country's passenger railways need is a dirty great factory to pump out Vlocities, what ever Adelaide get made, and replacements for the overland, Hitachis and Comengs.
I still wonder if increasingly longer Vlocities sets is such a smart idea, I mean one locomotive + 8 cars is easier to maintain than 8 railcars each with its own engine, generator, fuel tank etc etc.
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wongm
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Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 1:17 pm
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| fabricator wrote: | | I still wonder if increasingly longer Vlocities sets is such a smart idea, I mean one locomotive + 8 cars is easier to maintain than 8 railcars each with its own engine, generator, fuel tank etc etc. |
However some of the 8 cars worth of Vlocities fail you have a good chance of still running some kind of service with them. You also have less spare parts needed to be kept around, I believe the VLs are pretty modular so they just swap bits out rather than fix in situ.
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