RailCorp is no more - New Timetable ? ? ?

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Not sure when the new timetable is starting but RailCorp is no more ... our trains will be controlled by the old country link... now called NSW Trains [betta that had em up all night thinking about the name]

Wonders aloud if it will be better i.e. more and faster trains ... read somewhere Gosford will no longer be the main starting station ....

Sydney Trains will run most trains that move through Sydney and its suburbs. NSW Trains will run Countrylink and outer services to the central coast, Blue Mountains and Illawarra.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/all-change-as-railcorp-is-disbanded-20130630-2p5b6.html#ixzz2XiN6mWcj

 

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Hope we can see the new timetable soon ... my reading of the article is more trains to Gosford / Woy Woy and less to smaller stations...

http://m.smh.com.au/nsw/sydney-commuters-to-get-1000-more-train-services-20130917-2tw7n.html

Sydney train users will have access to about 1000 extra train services a week under a new timetable to begin next month, the O'Farrell government announced on Tuesday.

The timetable will also include about 600 new express services a week, Transport Minister Gladys Berejiklian said, as well as 230 extra peak services that arrive in the city between 6am and 10am and leave from 3pm to 7pm. There will be 100 extra peak services that arrive between 6am and 9am and leave the city between 4pm and 6pm.

The timetable will start on October 20 and Ms Berejiklian said it represented the biggest timetable "rewrite" in a generation.

Leaked versions of the draft timetable published earlier this year by Fairfax Media showed smaller stations in the Blue Mountains, on the Central Coast and on the South Coast would lose services under the new timetable as more trains ran on express patterns. The hub of Kogarah would also suffer significant service cuts.

But Ms Berejiklian, releasing the timetable at Parramatta Station with Sydney Trains chief executive Howard Collins, said most people would benefit overall.

“The new timetable makes the best possible use of our infrastructure and rolling stock and will deliver more services, new express services and shorter travel times for many customers travelling longer distances,” Ms Berejiklian said.

“There are also improved stopping patterns to reduce congestion and more consistent departure times, meaning customers at busier stations won’t need a timetable and platforms will be less crowded.

"We know a lot of commuters are working longer hours, so service frequency for people heading out of the city has been extended later into the evening and similarly in the morning."

 

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New CC Timetable

http://www.sydneytrains.info/timetables/pdf/2013/Central_Coast_Newcastle.pdf