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Table Talk May 2006 Page 1 May 2006, Number 166 RRP $2.95 ISSN 1038-3697 New Docklands May 2006, Number 166 RRP $2.95 ISSN 1038-3697 New Docklands – Williamstown ferry service. Services operate in the evenings and fill a gap in the current suite of ferry services plying their trade between Williamstown, the city, Docklands and St Kilda. It will be interesting to see how this service progresses over time. Table Talk’s editor collected this timetable from a local bottleshop in Williamstown this week en route to his favourite Japanese restaurant. See page 12 for further details about this new ferry. Swan Hill now has two return trains daily from 2 April 2006. This new TT is summarised by Albert Isaacs and Geoff Mann in this issue of Table Talk on page 5. Albert also speculates on what new services V/Line customers might see in the coming months on page 2 as part of the Regional Fast Rail project. Table Talk May 2006 Page 1 In this issue… • New Swan Hill trains… page 5 • Australian Airlines to cease operation… page 11 Table Talk is published monthly by the Australian Association of Timetable Collectors Inc. [Registration No: A0043673H] as a journal of record covering recent news items. The AATTC also publishes The Times covering historic and general items. Items for publication can be submitted to the Editor, Steven Haby. Editor: Steven Haby, PO Box 1072 Newport, VIC, 3015 – (03) 9399 4049, [email protected] Editorial Team: Geoff Mann (Associate Editor), Graeme Cleak, Lourie Smit. Production: Geoff and Judy Lambert Secretary: Steven Haby, PO Box 1072 Newport, VIC, 3015 – (03) 9399 4049, [email protected] AATTC on the web: www.aattc.org.au Original material appearing in Table Talk may be reproduced in other publications, acknowledgement is required. Membership 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 $50.00 pa. Membership enquiries should be directed to the Membership Officer: Dennis McLean, PO Box 24 NUNDAH, Qld 4012, - (07) 3266 8515. Acknowledgment is made of material sourced from Transit Australia, Catch Point, Australasian Bus & Coach website and TramsDownUnder newsgroup, General News later this year. It will be interesting to see whether Speculation, rumours, odd such services such as the Donnybrook Sprinter (run for additional capacity for Craigieburn happenings… passengers but terminates at Donnybrook to Like any business, the transport industry is shunt) will continue in the new TT. (Albert Isaacs) subject to the inevitable speculation, JAL cancels flight due to traffic jams unsubstantiated rumours and odd happenings. A number of items received recently have prompted Japan Airlines (JAL) was forced to cancel a flight the Editor to reintroduce such a feature. from Kobe to Kagoshima as well as the return flight, due to the captain being stuck in a traffic Improved V/Line services jam while in taxi from his home in Osaka There has been considerable speculation Prefecture. The JAL captain arrived over 90 concerning the rollout of new V/Line timetables. minutes late, which led to the 70 passengers who When V/Line introduces the new TT concurrent were due to board an 8am flight to change with the introduction of Regional Fast Rail carriers and board an All Nippon Airways plane. services it is expected that the improvements will JAL has apologised for the incident and has said be as dramatic as those introduced as part of the that there are normally substitute captains at landmark “New Deal for Country Passengers” major airports, not at Kobe airport. (Tony Bailey) back in 1981. Some things to ponder might be three daily trains to Ararat and Bairnsdale (by extending the Sale service) and additional International weekend runs to Albury and Warrnambool. New Zealand Interurban services would also expected to be improved particularly as V/Line has extra capacity Auckland with the VLocity DMU sets and no immediate Figures released by the Auckland Regional plans to withdraw the H set cars. Furthermore of Transport indicate record levels of patronage on more interest is the introduction of daily services all modes of transport in the year ending 31 to Echuca which seems a reality now that December 2005. Of interest is that rail patronage extensive track upgrades have commenced on is up 30% on previous year’s figures. Meanwhile the Echuca line. A question is when will these calls have been increasing for the reopening of changes take place? Some sources state that the Onehunga line to suburban trains – the last these will be rolled out once the Craigieburn passenger train ran in April 1973. (Transit electrification project is completed. Others say Australia, April 2006) sooner – particularly as there is a State Election Table Talk May 2006 Page 2 Wellington • Stairs, escalators and tactile tiles for the vision impaired. (Lourie Smit) The Green Party have called on the Government to divert $NZD730m from the coastal highway to improve rail services to Paraparaumu. (Transit Queensland Australia, April 2006) Upgraded Gold Coast bus services New South Wales The Gold Coast will receive additional funding to improve bus services in the region including Sydney Rail Clearways Project expanding the current services running along the Gold Coast highway. Twenty-five new low floor In early February 2006 work commenced on the air-conditioned buses have been ordered for the $98m Rail Clearways project at Hornsby station new service. Route 700 will operate 24 hours a which includes a new fifth platform and extending day replacing the current 24 hour a day service. the existing station concourse. Other work As a minimum services will operate on a 30 includes rearrangement of the bus interchange minute frequency 24 hours a day (currently the and new track to shift freight traffic away from existing route operates hourly in the wee small suburban lines. New sidings for the Epping to hours). This new route will enable buses to Chatswood line will also be constructed. It is operate every 5 minutes on weekdays between claimed that Hornsby station is one of the worst 0700 and 1900 from Southport and Burleigh bottlenecks on the CityRail network. (Transit Heads. Other changes are also proposed to other Australia, April 2006) existing services. These changes are to come into Timetables on your mobile effect from 15 May 2006. (Australasian Bus & Coach website, Steven Haby) Following on from Connex in Melbourne which provides SMS timetable and information on Burnett – Coast link delayed or cancelled services, a similar service The State Government is believed to have has been introduced within NSW by the State approved funding for a public transport link Government. Users with web compatible mobile between Biloela in central Queensland and phones can access bus, ferry or train TT and Hervey Bay. The new service will connect with the updates to delayed services. The service can be tilt train at Maryborough and flights at the new accessed at mobile.131500.info. (Australasian Hervey Bay airport. The Government also recently Bus & Coach website, Steven Haby) approved a new service between Eidsvold and Free CBD bus services across NSW Bundaberg to be provided by a community group. Both services are to receive Government The Greens in NSW have called on the State subsidies. (Australasian Bus & Coach website, Government to introduce free shuttle buses within Steven Haby) the CBDs of Sydney, Wollongong, Newcastle, Chatswood, Marrickville, Leichhardt, Manly, Brisbane all night train services under Campbelltown, Bondi and Cronulla would be review environmentally sustainable and help ease congestion. This call comes after the Parramatta The future of the all-night suburban rail services Council introduced a free local shuttle bus. operating on weekends is in doubt following a (Australasian Bus & Coach website, Steven Haby) recent report presented to State Parliament. As an alternative all-night bus services would be introduced. Reasons for the possibility of withdrawing the all-night services included less Blacktown bus interchange than expected patronage levels and expensive On Monday 10 April 2006 the new Blacktown bus labour costs. (Australasian Bus & Coach website, interchange was opened. Costing $30 million to Steven Haby) construct the interchange is located underground within the extended Westpoint Centre shopping centre in Patrick Street and features: Victoria • 10 bus bays Expanded late night suburban rail • Automatic safety doors similar to those in services proposal operation at Brisbane’s Queen Street bus There have been reports in the press about interchange proposals currently under consideration by • PIDs Connex and the Victorian Government to expand Friday and Saturday evening services to at least • Air-conditioned waiting rooms with seating 0200 on all lines except Williamstown and at least one other to cater for Melbourne’s nightlife. Table Talk May 2006 Page 3 Naturally the omission of the additional “transit” lanes along Hoddle Street to bus only Williamstown services (which run direct to lanes. This proposal is one of several being Flinders Street during peaks and as a shuttle from considered by the State Government following Newport off-peaks, nights and weekends) has Games and a new transport policy is due to be drawn criticism in the local Newport and released shortly. (Australasian Bus & Coach Williamstown newspapers. website, Steven Haby) Currently the last services depart around 5-10 Lancefield and Romsey transport minutes either side of midnight from Flinders improvements Street. Bus services in Lancefield and Romsey could be This proposal comes after calls, at the end of the expanded as the Macedon Ranges Shire Council Commonwealth Games, to retain the very prepares to evaluate the towns’ public transport successful 20 minute evening frequencies on all needs. A survey has begun distributing surveys to lines that were in operation during the Games determine future requirements. (Transit Australia, period, rather than the usual 30 minute April 2006) frequencies.
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