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Sunshine Coast Line : Delays for JANUARY 2015

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December 20, 2014, 22:28:28 PM Last Edit: February 01, 2015, 15:37:58 PM by Fares_Fair
January delays thus far ... to SC commuters.
This is my 42nd 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 (but could be as late as 20 June), to sell and lease assets worth some $33.6 billion and 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 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 the history for yourself under 'Individual monthly performance summaries' link 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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Monday January 05, 2015
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time  within 2 minutes of timetable

Monday January 05, 2015
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 6 minutes late  waited just north of Landsborough, no reason given for delay
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Tuesday January 06, 2015
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 2 minutes late

Tuesday January 06, 2015
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 1 minute early
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Wednesday January 07, 2015
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 2 minutes late

Wednesday January 07, 2015
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time
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Thursday January 08, 2015
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time

Thursday January 08, 2015
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time  within 2 minutes of timetable
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Friday January 09, 2015
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 3 minutes late

Friday January 09, 2015
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time
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Monday January 12, 2015
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 3 minutes late

Monday January 12, 2015
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 2 minutes early
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Tuesday January 13, 2015
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 5 minutes late

Tuesday January 13, 2015
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 2 minutes early
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Wednesday January 14, 2015
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 2 minutes early  ran express Petrie to Northgate to Eagle Junction to Bowen Hills, saving 2 minutes.

Wednesday January 14, 2015
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time
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Thursday January 15, 2015
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 3 minutes late

Thursday January 15, 2015
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time
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Monday January 19, 2015
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 2 minutes late

Monday January 19, 2015
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time
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Tuesday January 20, 2015
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time   ran express Petrie to Northgate to Eagle Junction to Bowen Hills, saving 2 minutes

Tuesday January 20, 2015
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 2 minutes early
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Wednesday January 21, 2015
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time

Wednesday January 21, 2015
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time  within 2 minutes of timetable
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Thursday January 22, 2015
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time

Thursday January 22, 2015
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 17 minutes late  arrived Landsborough 5 min's late (wet weather- who knows), track fault at Mooloolah added to delay
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Friday January 23, 2015
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time within 2 minutes of timetable

Friday January 23, 2015
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 10 minutes late  a train failure at Eagle Junction caused delay. Stopped 6.3km north of Roma St, near Albion.
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Tuesday January 27, 2015
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 3 minutes late

Tuesday January 27, 2015
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 1 minute early
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Thursday January 29, 2015
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time within 2 minutes of timetable

Thursday January 29, 2015
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 2 minutes early
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Friday January 30, 2015
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 3 minutes late  Ran express Petrie to Northgate to Eagle Junction, saved 3 minutes.

Friday January 30, 2015
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 2 minutes early
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Regards,
Fares_Fair

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