SCL - Cooroy Luncheon Friday 6th June 2014

[ozbob]

Informal get-together at the Cooroy RSL for luncheon Friday 6th June 2014.  Anyone welcome to join in.

Roma St 9.29am 'Gympie Lander'  Cooroy due at 11.57am - Car one

Return options:

Cooroy 2.03pm Nambour 2.25pm  Roma St due at 4.21pm

Cooroy 631 bus 3.38pm - 4.20pm Nambour

Break at Nambour for a look at Nambour station and local developments.

Options

Nambour departures 3:13 B3:51 4:30 B4:51 B5:22 5:39 B6:21 B7:20 8:13

B=bus

Cooroy RSL http://www.cooroyrsl.com.au/

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[Stillwater]

Yum Yum

[Fares_Fair]

Thank you for the invite.

Sorry, I would like to but have deadlines at work tomorrow.
Please accept my apology.

[ozbob]

No worries ..

So I touch on at Goodna, touch off at Darra with my primary go card.

Touch on at Darra with a secondary go card.

Touch off at Milton.  Check out progress with the TOD.

Touch back on at Milton with primary go card, touch off at Roma St.  Have breakfast. Two paid journeys completed.  Wait an hour.

Travel free for the rest of the day. Yes folks, that is the two journey cap in action ...

Queenslander! ...   

(To the casual reader, I am NOT making this up, this is the fare system inflicted on the punters of SEQ ...  I know  ... crazy).

[ozbob]

Just leaving Darra .. plenty of time to touch off and touch on. Marvellous fare system .. bonus ... chariot to town is EMU01 :-)

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[ozbob]

Two paid journeys completed on my primary go card  ..  travel free for the day now ...

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[ozbob]

PID at Roma St .. windows 32 execution error on screen ...



Ekka loopers .. pity don't run all year ...



Progress at Milton



Photographs R Dow 6th June 2014

[ozbob]

No worries ..

So I touch on at Goodna, touch off at Darra with my primary go card.

Touch on at Darra with a secondary go card.

Touch off at Milton.  Check out progress with the TOD.

Touch back on at Milton with primary go card, touch off at Roma St.  Have breakfast. Two paid journeys completed.  Wait an hour.

Travel free for the rest of the day. Yes folks, that is the two journey cap in action ...

Queenslander! ...   

(To the casual reader, I am NOT making this up, this is the fare system inflicted on the punters of SEQ ...  I know  ... crazy).

Go card (primary) history so far ... two paid journeys completed.  Wait till 8.24am  ... go free all day ...

06 Jun 2014
06:30 AM    Goodna    06:44 AM    Darra    $ 2.07         $ 4.76
07:00 AM    Auto top up  ( Milton )         $ 40.00    $ 0.00
07:00 AM    Milton    07:23 AM    Roma Street    $ 1.77         $ 42.99

[ozbob]

Both the Seniors two journey daily cap, and the nine journey weekly cap are both easily rorted.
Other jurisdictions just have a simple flat fare for Senior, or free off peak. 

Flat fares for Seniors are much more equitable.  Inner city residents find it easy to get up two paid journeys, others have to go the lengths I have demonstrated to achieve it.

Seniors on the Sunny Coast often take a day journey to Brisbane.  They might be inclined to pay for the first journey to Brisbane.  But if they then wait an hour and go for a one stop bus ride, or river crossing this will achieve the second paid journey.  Wait an hour they then can travel free for the rest of the day, including a free journey home.

[ozbob]

No ICE today ...  IMU

Train arriving at Roma St platform 9



Spirit of the Outback





Photographs R Dow 6th June 2014

[ozbob]

Caboolture 10.18am  ontime ...

[ozbob]

Passed UP freighter at Landsborough, 'dance' at Mooloolah  UP pass,  one minute down at Woombye.  Lining up for arrival at Nambour, couple of minutes late due at Nambour 11.26am ..

[ozbob]

'Dance' at Nambour, Sunlander at the platform ...

[ozbob]

Despite the Nambour waltz ... arrived on time at Cooroy.  Nice lunch too!

Heading back on IMU109 ...  Cooroy arrival



Photograph R Dow 6th June 2014

Down freighter passed at Nambour

[ozbob]

Execution:

06 Jun 2014
06:30 AM    Goodna    06:44 AM    Darra    $ 2.07         $ 4.76
07:00 AM    Auto top up  ( Milton )         $ 40.00    $ 0.00
07:00 AM    Milton    07:23 AM    Roma Street    $ 1.77         $ 42.99
08:48 AM    Roma Street    12:00 PM    Cooroy    $ 0.00         $ 42.99
01:39 PM    Cooroy    

No worries ..

So I touch on at Goodna, touch off at Darra with my primary go card.

Touch on at Darra with a secondary go card.

Touch off at Milton.  Check out progress with the TOD.

Touch back on at Milton with primary go card, touch off at Roma St.  Have breakfast. Two paid journeys completed.  Wait an hour.

Travel free for the rest of the day. Yes folks, that is the two journey cap in action ...

Queenslander! ...   

(To the casual reader, I am NOT making this up, this is the fare system inflicted on the punters of SEQ ...  I know  ... crazy).

Go card (primary) history so far ... two paid journeys completed.  Wait till 8.24am  ... go free all day ...

06 Jun 2014
06:30 AM    Goodna    06:44 AM    Darra    $ 2.07         $ 4.76
07:00 AM    Auto top up  ( Milton )         $ 40.00    $ 0.00
07:00 AM    Milton    07:23 AM    Roma Street    $ 1.77         $ 42.99

[ozbob]

On time run back to Roma St ...  Solid pax load in from Landsborough.

Heading out on the Ippy SMU222, about half loaded with pax.  Still a little early for peak ...

[ozbob]

Go card history for the day ...

06 Jun 2014
06:30 AM    Goodna    06:44 AM    Darra    $ 2.07         $ 4.76
07:00 AM    Auto top up  ( Milton )         $ 40.00    $ 0.00
07:00 AM    Milton    07:23 AM    Roma Street    $ 1.77         $ 42.99
08:48 AM    Roma Street    12:00 PM    Cooroy    $ 0.00         $ 42.99
01:39 PM    Cooroy    04:56 PM    Goodna    $ 0.00         $ 42.99

[Fares_Fair]

How much did you save?   

[ozbob]

Cooroy is zone 22

Normal concession fares:
Goodna to Cooroy - peak $10.71, return off peak $8.57 = $19.28

Using two go cards:

Fares coming in: $2.07 + $1.77 (primary go card) + $2.46 (secondary go card) = $6.30


So direct saving of $12.98 (67%)  also any further travel is free as well. 

[ozbob]

Queensland Rail do an excellent job at managing the train congestion north of Beerburrum.

Yesterday we had two dances, Mooloolah and Nambour on the way to Cooroy, and one dance at Palmwoods heading back to Brisbane. A number of trains passed, long distance passenger trains, interurbans and freight trains.  It is a very busy line.

A dance is where the train either reverses backwards after arrival at the station, to move onto a passing loop to allow an oncoming train access to the station platform.  A variation is where the train is held in the loop and then reverses back onto the main line and then into the station or goes ahead to the main line and then reverses into the station. Dances can add 10 minutes to what should be a one minute stop.

Nambour needs another through platform. 

The footbridge at Cooroy is rotting.  This is the only pedestrian access across the railway line and is a critical piece of infrastructure for the town.  Some termite damage/rot has been repaired by using concrete in the areas affected.  A real Queensland solution that one. They did the concrete repairs but failed to paint the rest of the wood so it continues to rot ...  one wonders at times.

[ozbob]

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