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Cityrail's New Timetable Is Planned for Introduction by September 2005 January 2005, Num ber 150 RRP $2.95 ISSN 1038-3697 CityRail‘s new timetable is planned for introduction by September 2005. Publicity for it began on 1 December and was badly received; major stories appeared in both the Sydney Morning Herald and the Daily Telegraph with headlines such as Cut, cut, cut: the great train robbery, Slashed rail needs to recruit drivers, Term inal dilem m a and Costa's tim e warp: fewer, slower services. A 12 page DL sized brochure was published to explain and detail the changes (cover shown at left). The new timetable has been published on the internet at www.cityrail.info and was available for view at regional libraries from 29 November until 31 December 2004. To complicate things further CityRail achieved a new low. On W ednesday 1 December only 1.9 per cent of all afternoon services were on time; admittedly due to a sub-station failure but hardly the situation the Government wanted to happen. Table Talk‘s detailed coverage of the timetable begins on page 4. On page 2 are reference maps for the proposed rail clearways project. The top map shows the planned line segregation, whilst the second shows the proposed track changes. Table Talk January 2005 Page 2 Top Table Talk: • CityRail‘s 2005 Timetable œ page 4 • Baxter‘s, Harris Park Transport and Moore‘s Tours quit Sydney route services œ page 8 • Yarra Trams changed services and timetables for routes 30 and 48 œ Page 8 Table Talk is published monthly by the Australian Association Of Timetable Collectors Inc. [Registration No: A0043673H] as a journal covering recent news items. The AATTC also publishes The Times covering historic and general items. Editor: Duncan MacAuslan, 19 Ellen Street, Rozelle, NSW , 2039 œ (02) 9555 2667, dmacaus1@ bigpond.net.au Editorial Team : Graeme Cleak, Lourie Smit. Production: Geoff Lambert, Chris London and friends. Secretary: Steven W ard, 12/1219 Centre Road, South Oakleigh, VIC, 3167, (03) 9540 0320 AATTC on the web: www.aattc.org.au, email: aattc@ ozemail.com.au Original material appearing in Table Talk may be reproduced in other publications, acknowledgement is required. Mem bership of the AATTC includes monthly copies of The Times, Table Talk, the distribution list of TTs and the twice-yearly auction catalogue. The membership fee is $45.00 pa. Membership enquiries should be directed to the Membership Officer: Dennis McLean, 53 Bargo Street, Arana Hills, Qld, 4054, - (07) 3351 6496. You Wrote… From Roderick B Sm ith to be met. The ferry has negligible historical and aesthetic significance. It obviously has social Chris seems to have merged two Speewa punts significance because the local people have placed into one. Here is the text from the RTA website a lep on the ferry. It is probable that the on the current DMR/RTA one, which Chris has significance is seen to lie more in the convenience described: Speewa punt, Updated: 15 May 1998 as a crossing than any particular attachment to The Speewa ferry has significance as the only the ferry. Local enquires seemed to confirm this. example of a ferry crossing on the NSW lower The ferry is the only one in NSW on the Murray Murray. The current ferry was built in 1979. It is a below Hume W eir, and provides the opportunity to two-cable ferry running approximately north-south understand the type of crossing which existed across the river. There is a small enclosed cabin before the bridges were built. The ferry would for the operator. The ferry is in very good become of greater significance if the only other condition. ferry across the river (W ymah) were to be taken History: Speewa is a parish in W akool County with out of service. Currently operated by DMR 90. It a short frontage to the Murray on the NSW side. is single lane, carries ~3 cars, and is steel. It is In both Speewa and the neighbouring parish to slipped every 3 years, using the approach the west, Puah, there is an island in the river roadway (which has rails embedded). Recently, called Speewa Island. It seems probably that it is railings were upgraded to meet modern in this vicinity that the Speewa ferry was occupational health & safety rules. introduced. The area was initially grazing and I have a photo of the wooden punt in 1962, but it there were sufficient children around by the 1890s is probably better for AFS rather than TT. for a provisional school to be established upstream from Speewa parish but still call Now Speewa Island is NOT otherwise isolated. It Speewa. This school was closed in 1900, after has many roads and many farms, and is only 8 months, and did not reopen. W ith the connected across the minor Speewa Creek to a village settlement just downstream at Nyah in NSW trunk road. W hen I took my car over the Victoria at just this time and a burgeoning dried ferry in 2003, I continued the circuit by road to fruits industry at Koraleigh in NSW to the north, approach Swan Hill from the NSW bank. interstate commerce was more vibrant, and the Chris has confused Speewa Island with Beveridge need for a ferry at Speewa was met and continues Island. This island is part of Victoria, and is Table Talk January 2005 Page 3 leased to the Hazlett family. The northern private punt at 861 km on the Little Murray (the boundary is the main Murray, but is very shallow. public one is at 857 km, measured from the The southern boundary is the Little Murray, and is mouth). I have a photo in my collection from a the normal navigation route. The Hazletts have a friend, but not publication rights. For the Record Contributors Tony Bailey, Chis Brownbill, Derek Cheng, Jackson, Matthew Jennings, Peter Jones, Geoff Anthony Christie, Graeme Cleak, Michael Coley, Lambert, Julian Mathieson, Michael Marshall, Ian Cooper, Ken Davey, Adrian Dessanti, Graham John Mikita, Peter Murphy, Len Regan, Graeme Duffin, Noel Farr, Neville Fenn, Paul Garred, Alan Reynolds, Scott Richards, Lourie Smit, Tris Gray, Steven Haby, Craig Halsall, Robert Tottenham, Craig W atkins, Roger W heaton, David Henderson, Michael Hutton, Albert Isaacs, Bob W hiteford Rail line in early 2006 following the completion of National works at Bondi Junction, estimated to be Australian Train Timetables œ A totally new finished by November 2005. December 2004 version of Victor Isaacs‘ Bankstown Line Liverpool or Lidcombe to publication has been uploaded to the AATTC Town Hall via Bankstown website. W eekday morning and afternoon peak: stations between Bankstown and Campsie Sydney will have six trains an hour; all other stations will have four trains an hour. CityRail 2005 Tim etable W eekday off-peak: all stations will have four As headlined on page 1 CityRail announced its trains an hour. proposed September 2005 timetable on 1 W eekends: all stations will have two trains an December 2005. hour. The new 2005 CityRail timetable brochure, Inner West Liverpool to Museum via Regents summarising key changes by line with a feedback Park or Granville form (same info as provided on the website). W eekday morning and afternoon peak: the Dated November 2004. majority of stations will have four trains an hour. Major stations will have additional CityRail is developing a new timetable for services in the peaks. introduction by September 2005. The new W eekday off-peak: all stations will have four timetable will reflect safer running times and trains an hour. improve the reliability of Sydney‘s metropolitan W eekends: all stations will have two trains an train services. hour. Major stations will have additional The new timetable will apply to all lines with the services. exception of the Eastern Suburbs and Illawarra Cum berland Line Campbelltown to and South Coast Lines. New timetables for these Blacktown lines are proposed for early 2006 following the On weekdays between Campbelltown and completion of the new Bondi Junction turnback as Blacktown there will be two trains in the part of the $1 billion being spent on new station morning peak and three return trains in the and track infrastructure by the NSW Government afternoon peak. under its Rail Clearways Plan. Airport & East Hills Line Macarthur to Town The following summary of changes is taken from Hall via Airport or Sydenham the brochure. W eekday morning and afternoon peak: major Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra Line W aterfall stations will have between six and eight trains or Cronulla to Bondi Junction. an hour; all other stations will have four trains Services on this line will not be affected by an hour. this timetable change with the exception of a W eekday off-peak: stations between few trains that have been rescheduled for the Macarthur and Holsworthy will have two trains purpose of positioning for the commuter an hour to the city; stations between East Hills peaks. A new timetable is proposed for this and Turrella will have four to six trains an Table Talk January 2005 Page 4 hour. Stopping patterns will be simplified and up to eight trains an hour; all other stations contain fewer variations, making the timetable will have a minimum of four trains an hour. easier to remember. Continuation of construction of the Epping œ W eekends: East Hills, Padstow, Riverwood Chatswood line, four morning and two and Kingsgrove will have four trains an hour; afternoon peak trains starting and terminating all other stations will have two trains an hour at Epping will continue to start and terminate to the city via the airport. at Eastwood. South Line Campbelltown to City via W eekday off-peak and weekends: all stations Granville will have two trains an hour.
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