With both lines scheduled to open with electric services in February, there will be the odd occasion where a 3 car spark will run to Tonsley whilest a single or double diesel railcar will run to Noarlunga/Seaford, talk about a capacity imbalance. That's assuming sparks work to Tonsley at all in the first 6 months or so.I think the only EMUs operating to Tonsley before 2015-16 when the EMU fleet is completed will be a couple of test trains, and even after that it would surely be subject to sufficient EMUs being left over for Tonsley trains after those necessary for Seaford and Salisbury services have been fully allocated.
Thanks for that progress report, Ian. So they finally got around to Cross Rd X South Rd - I'm guessing it was a complicated part of the wiring which is why it took so long?That was done five weeks ago with a couple of overnight closures of the intersection. There doesn't appear to be anything too complicated there, the only even mildly interesting bit with the wiring is that a couple of the supports are attached to the bridge rather than to some kind of mast or gantry.
I notice in todays Adelaide Sunday Mail that the paper is trying to beat up a story now that the DMU's are back on track sort of, it seems there will have to be another shutdown and commuters will again have to travel by substitute buses for a time. .................
I agree, progress has been slow but at least trains are running and they have been bold enough to try a high frequency timetable.I think I will wait to see if the department develops the capacity to learn from their failures before giving them any credit, currently they go back to the same mistakes again and again.
I think you know how critical I have been and still am, but I am willing to award some credit.
Ian
Seems the editors have realised an election is comming and they have to follow the company line on politicsIt's weird that Rupert even cares about politics in South Australia but apparently he still does. I suppose it's where he started out with his first newspaper. I well remember when I was living in Adelaide in the 1990's and Rupert popped in for a News Corp meeting and told the state government that they should get rid of pokies, apparently because there was a slump in Advertiser sales at the time attributable to less disposable income. It was funny because prior to the introduction of pokies they were campaigning vigorously for them...
Some person, I hesitate to use the word Journalist, has trawled through Facebook pages and grabbed a few sorry interviews at ARS to get a page filler. Get photos of people suffering severe constipation and Photoshop that onto a train background and you have your illustration.And they wonder why people are getting their news elsewhere?
Sure it was behind the projected schedule but my way would have had it finished almost by now and just awaiting the arrival and testing of the new railcars almost. I just hope if and when they do the section to Dry Creek that it is all done in one hit not a repeat of this fiasco on the Noarlunga Line!It was a no-win situation really wasn't it. Bring it back (as they did) before it was all finished and have an intermittent service on a temporary timetable or leave it till it was actually ready and face even more complaints. Either way the Advertiser was going to try and find an angle that made the government look bad... as Pressman says it's company policy.
DavidNot getting upset about it just pointing it out. My mother along with a lot of other gullible people would read this and take it as gospel though. I would not believe the Sadvertiser or Sunday Wail if they said I had won the $31m lottery. And yes if they got some decent journalists that can actually write a news story, without making it up as they go it would actually be a good paper, at the moment it is just one stop away from toilet paper really. Careful of the ink if you have to use it though!
It is not worth getting upset over what is printed in the Sadvertiser or the Sunday Wail.
Some person, I hesitate to use the word Journalist, has trawled through Facebook pages and grabbed a few sorry interviews at ARS to get a page filler. Get photos of people suffering severe constipation and Photoshop that onto a train background and you have your illustration.
I agree, progress has been slow but at least trains are running and they have been bold enough to try a high frequency timetable.
I think you know how critical I have been and still am, but I am willing to award some credit.
Ian
Thanks for that - good video. They didn't seem to have it going full speed on the straight?
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