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Sunshine Coast Line : Delays for OCTOBER 2014

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September 29, 2014, 20:25:19 PM Last Edit: October 31, 2014, 20:00:59 PM by Fares_Fair
October delays thus far ... to SC commuters.
This is my 39th month of detailed daily data recording.

On Monday 23 June 2014, the Queensland Premier, the Hon Campbell Newman announced that the No. 1 issue to arise out of the Sunshine Coast Community Cabinet meeting held at the Maroochydore High School on Sunday 22 June 2014, was the Sunshine Coast rail line upgrade.

Later in the afternoon the Qld. Premier was interviewed. This is what he said;
"But the single biggest one that we heard yesterday was that people want this rail infrastructure upgrade for the North Coast railway line, and we've taken that on board."
He continued ... "We will pencil that one down as one of the big ticket infrastructure items that we have to deliver around this State."

It is subject to a mandate from the people of Queensland at the next state election due in March 2015, to sell and lease assets worth some $33.6 billion and to to release $8.6 billion for infrastructure spending throughout the State. Rail duplication from Beerburrum to Nambour is in the running for that spend.
We were supposed to find out in SEPTEMBER 2014 (last month) what that spend may be.
...this did not occur, announcement has been delayed. Hoping it's because of ARTC funding proposal to get duplication 'across the line' through to Nambour

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 (from 9 to 14 stations) - 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 1669 km North Coast Line from Brisbane to Cairns.
Also astonishingly, 42% of our daily train services are in fact rail buses (Caboolture to Nambour), 26 per day - 13 (40.63%) northbound and 13 (43.33%) southbound.
These buses traverse the road network acting as trains due to the freight shared congestion of the predominately single track line.

UPDATED DAILY
Is it more reliable?  Short answer is yes, it is. Massive improvement to my services based upon these statistics.
See for yourself by the growing list below;

:thsdo : 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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Wednesday October 01, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time
                   
Wednesday October 01, 2014
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 5 minutes late   waited near Mooloolah station for freight train to pass by... need #2tracks
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Thursday October 02, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time
                   
Thursday October 02, 2014
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 3 minutes late
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Friday October 03, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 4 minutes late

Friday October 03, 2014
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

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

Arrived Central 2 minutes late

Tuesday October 07, 2014
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time  within 2 minutes of timetable
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Wednesday October 08, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 3 minutes late

Wednesday October 08, 2014
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time 
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Thursday October 09, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time

Thursday October 09, 2014
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

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

Arrived Central on time  within 2 minutes of timetable

Tuesday October 14, 2014
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 1 minute early
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Monday October 20, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time  within 2 minutes of timetable

Monday October 20, 2014
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time 
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Tuesday October 21, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time  within 2 minutes of timetable

Tuesday October 21, 2014
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 2 minutes early   ... and departed Central 4 minutes late
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Wednesday October 22, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time  within 2 minutes of timetable

Wednesday October 22, 2014
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time  within 2 minutes of timetable
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Thursday October 23, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 3 minutes late

Thursday October 23, 2014
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time  within 2 minutes of timetable
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Friday October 24, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 2 minutes late

Friday October 24, 2014
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 2 minutes late
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Monday October 27, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time  within 2 minutes of timetable, ran express Eagle Junction to Bowen Hills to make up time - and did so  :-t

Monday October 27, 2014
4:38 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 30 minutes late   signal failure at Central station caused widespread disruptions, platform 6 closed
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Tuesday October 28, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time  within 2 minutes of timetable

Tuesday October 28, 2014
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time
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Wednesday October 29, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time  within 2 minutes of timetable

Wednesday October 29, 2014
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 2 minutes early
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Thursday October 30, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time

Thursday October 30, 2014
4:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 1 minute early
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Friday October 31, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 3 minutes late

Friday October 31, 2014
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time
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Regards,
Fares_Fair

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