Sunshine Coast Line : Delays for DECEMBER 2014

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December delays thus far ... to SC commuters.
This is my 41st 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 are patiently awaiting an announcement on the outcome of a 4 year 'Duplicate the Sunshine Coast line' campaign.
We are hoping for an Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) response to get duplication 'across the line' through to Nambour and improve the NCL generally.

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 (14 stations) - but they take just as much time (Roma St to Nambour) as our (9 station) 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;

: 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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Monday December 01, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 5 minutes late
                   
Monday December 01, 2014
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

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

Arrived Central 26 minutes late  Freight train blocked single track just south Palmwoods station, after waiting for bus, I ended up catching 6:40am train. It arrived 6 minutes later than its scheduled time at Central.

Tuesday December 02, 2014
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time
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Wednesday December 03, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time  within 2 minutes of timetable

Wednesday December 03, 2014
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

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

Arrived Central 2 minutes late

Thursday December 04, 2014
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 2 minutes late
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Friday December 05, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 1 minute early

Friday December 05, 2014
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 5 minutes late  waited south of Mooloolah for crossing freight train, need #2tracks, Toilets out of order front 3 carriages 
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Monday December 08, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time

Monday December 08, 2014
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 12 minutes late  waited north of Landsborough for red signal clearance and at Mooloolah for points resetting, need #2tracks
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Tuesday December 09, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time

Tuesday December 09, 2014
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

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

Arrived Central on time

Wednesday December 10, 2014
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 1 minute early
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Thursday December 11, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time

Thursday December 11, 2014
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 39 minutes late  3rd bout severe weather in 22 days wreaks havoc with trains, also waited Beerburrum for southbound train to cross on single track. I caught first Caboolture train home after 5pm (it was actually 15 minute late service) but I'll assume it was my normal train home for these record purposes.
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Friday December 12, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 2 minutes late

Friday December 12, 2014
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

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

Arrived Central 2 minutes late

Monday December 15, 2014
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 14 minutes late  waited at Landsborough for train stuck at Mooloolah station, bypassed Mooloolah. Toilets out of order front 3 carriages 
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Tuesday December 16, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time  within 2 minutes of timetable

Tuesday December 16, 2014
4:18 PM service from City to Nambour

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

Arrived Central 4 minutes late

Wednesday December 17, 2014
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 2 minutes early
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Thursday December 18, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 2 minutes late 

Thursday December 18, 2014
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 3 minutes late
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Friday December 19, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 3 minutes late

Friday December 19, 2014
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time
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