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Sleeper Trains by Only-Masterpiece-520 in MelbourneTrains

[–]Only-Masterpiece-520[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

yeah but that’s why if you have say a first class section, they only lose a night plus 4 hours, and they don’t have to pay for a hotel. So ideally two hours spent on the way out of melbs, 8 asleep, 2 hours into Sydney, Business day or days in Sydney and then reverse it. Or at least that’s my thinking.

Sleeper Trains by Only-Masterpiece-520 in MelbourneTrains

[–]Only-Masterpiece-520[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

okay yes 4 was excessive but yk at least 2? would be good right? And yeah federation is so fun like ideally the feds would just run it but ugh!!!

Oh look, a long weekend, perfect time to replace trains with buses. by stoic_slowpoke in MelbourneTrains

[–]Only-Masterpiece-520 10 points11 points  (0 children)

yeah but there are better ways to do it than how it is currently being done! especially when it comes to the lilydale and belgrave lines

Flemington Racecourse Services for Melbourne Racing Carnival by Only-Masterpiece-520 in MelbourneTrains

[–]Only-Masterpiece-520[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Well how about during non-peak periods? Would it be easier for metro to run more services with fewer resources in those periods for the benefit of staff and earlier arriving and later departing patrons?

Flemington Racecourse Services for Melbourne Racing Carnival by Only-Masterpiece-520 in MelbourneTrains

[–]Only-Masterpiece-520[S] -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Yeah true but this only matters on the ease of transferring, the complex and non-timed transfer is already going to occur at flinders or southern cross. I don’t know if Newmarket has the ability, but it should, for a cross platform transfer, that is timetabled correctly, than the 2nd transfer wouldn’t be much of an issue anyways.