Sunshine Coast Line : Delays for APRIL 2014

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April delays thus far ... to SC commuters.
This is my 33rd month of detailed daily data recording.

The times reported below do not take into account the 3 minutes and 59 second allowance that QR's service contract to TRANSLink allows.
A Sunshine Coast, Rosewood or Gold Coast train e.g. can be up to 5 minutes and 59 seconds late and still considered statistically to be 'on-time'.

All times shown below are actual arrival times, all times taken from when train becomes stationary, and before doors open.
NO times are rounded up.

Under my system, early arrival times at destinations are actually subtracted from the TTL (total time lost) figure,
in addition, arrival times less than 2 minutes late are NOT added to these figures.
Only when services are 2 minutes late or more, will the TTL figure increase.

IMPORTANT NOTE:
I believe that Queensland Rail do a superb job given the extreme infrastructure limitations on the Sunshine Coast line.
Our 2 new train services may have longer express legs - but they take just as much time (Roma St to Nambour) as our other shorter express leg services.


The major factor required to permanently improve the line is rail duplication to Nambour, and, at a cost benefit ratio of 2.285, it's great value for money.
Astonishingly, rail congestion between Caboolture and Nambour was identified as "a major overall impediment" to the ENTIRE 1668 km North Coast Line from Brisbane to Cairns.
Also astonishingly, 42% of our daily train services are in fact rail buses, 26 per day - 13 (40.63%) northbound and 13 (43.33%) southbound.
These buses traverse the road network acting as trains due to the congestion of the predominately single track line.
The 44% figure has been revised down to 42% (actual 41.98%) upon the 2 new services beginning on 20 January 2014

UPDATED DAILY
Is it more reliable?
See for yourself by the growing list below;

: this symbol denotes a service without toilet facilities, or with 'out of order' toilet facilities.
Re: Toilets; should I forget to check their status, the default has been to always assume that they are working and in order.
This check ONLY applies to the front 3 carriages in the direction of travel.

Individual monthly performance summaries found here: --> http://railbotforum.org/mbs/index.php?topic=7184.0
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Tuesday April 01, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 3 minutes late

Tuesday April 01, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 1 minute early
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Wednesday April 02, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time   within 2 minutes of timetable.  Toilets 'out of order' on front 3 carriages (2nd time this week) 

Wednesday April 02, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 14 minutes late  delayed by 'signal dramas' at Petrie, no announcement until we were 13 minutes late departing Petrie!

No Queensland Rail tweets or Facebook info, no TRANSLink tweets or Facebook info.
HOPELESS COMMUNICATIONS BY THOSE WHO SHOULD KNOW BETTER - 150 pax on our train treated like mushrooms.
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Thursday April 03, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time   within 2 minutes of timetable.

Thursday April 03, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 2 minutes early
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Friday April 04, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 4 minutes late

Friday April 04, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 1 minute early
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Monday April 07, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 4 minutes late

Monday April 07, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time
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Tuesday April 08, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 2 minutes late

Tuesday April 08, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 3 minutes late
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Wednesday April 09, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time   within 2 minutes of timetable.

Wednesday April 09, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 2 minutes early
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Thursday April 10, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time

Thursday April 10, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 3 minutes early  NB literally 2 seconds from being just 2 minutes early
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Friday April 11, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 1 minute early

Friday April 11, 2014
9:34 AM service from City to Caboolture then Caboolture to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time
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Monday April 14, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 2 minutes late

Monday April 14, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time
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Tuesday April 15, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time   within 2 minutes of timetable.

Tuesday April 15, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 1 minute early
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Wednesday April 16, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 2 minutes late

Wednesday April 16, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time   within 2 minutes of timetable.
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Thursday April 17, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time   within 2 minutes of timetable.

Thursday April 17, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 3 minutes late  waited at Landsborough. Kabang! Rock smashes train window around 500m south of Palmwoods station 1 seat from where I was standing. I instinctively ducked. It significantly dents aluminium window frame also. Passenger was sitting right beside window when struck and heard it crackle.
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Tuesday April 22, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 19 minutes late   Truck hits boom gate at Strathpine rail crossing causing 15-20minute delays.

Tuesday April 22, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time
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Thursday April 24, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time   within 2 minutes of timetable.

Thursday April 24, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 1 minute early
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Monday April 28, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time   within 2 minutes of timetable.

Monday April 28, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time    within 2 minutes of timetable.
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Tuesday April 29, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time   within 2 minutes of timetable.  remarkable effort by QR, went through boom-gate strike too! 

Tuesday April 29, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 3 minutes late
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Wednesday April 30, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time  within 2 minutes of timetable. (effectively 20 minutes late for statistical purposes)
Dewirement at Glass House Mountains caused delays. I left home half hour early and arrived at normal time. Good comms by QR and TL via Twitter and Facebook. My journey involved 6:03 train Palmwoods to Beerwah, bus Beerwah to Beerburrum then 7:00am train into City.
I heard stories today of those who went in early or changed their plans because of the timely details and notice.
Today was a textbook example of how to manage delays.

Wednesday April 30, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 4 minutes late
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