Corinda Tennyson trains under threat

[ar_howard]

Translink officers are surveying passengers travelling on the Corinda Tennyson service asking journey details

Evidently they are considering cancelling these services and replacing them with buses

it may be a Claytons survey as not enough questions are being asked of passengers

if the trains on this line were more frequent it might actually encourage more public transport users

not everyone travels to the city and more radial services like this are needed to link with the busway and other non-city bound services

[ozbob]

Welcome, continue agree more.  More services using the existing infrastructure is part of the way to reduce the radial route congestion  issues.  I agree if there more services more folks could use the trains.  I have been on a few services through Tennyson of late and there were reasonable loads.  In view of the TODs at Tennyson etc.  there will be more opportunities to support with rail we hope.  A few members here have suggesting trialling new paths like Cleveland to Ipswich via Tennyson.  Could be useful as decentralisation proceeds.

[somebody]

The current use of the Tennyson line is wasteful.  I can't understand why they feel it would be unacceptable to have a 6 car train, but only open the doors on the first 3 cars.  Running a 3 car train through there means that half of a valuable path over the Merivale bridge is wasted.

[mufreight]

The usual practice is that all six cars are open to Yeerongpilly then closed off to Corinda, as for the seemingly wasteful operation of six cars and lack of utilisation of the train path over the Merivale bridge it is less wasteful than an empty run to position cars for a service run which is done quite frequently

[somebody]

The usual practice is that all six cars are open to Yeerongpilly then closed off to Corinda, as for the seemingly wasteful operation of six cars and lack of utilisation of the train path over the Merivale bridge it is less wasteful than an empty run to position cars for a service run which is done quite frequently

Ok, I didn't know about this one.  I understood it was all 3 car units through Tennyson.  You have to wonder why they can't do the same thing to Rosewood.

[mufreight]

There are a couple of through services to and from Rosewood that are operated by six car sets with the trailing three cars empty and locked off beyond Ipswich on the outbound journey with the reverse happening on the inbound journey with the three leading cars locked off until the train reaches Ipswich, these services are operated this way due to the unavailability of either a crew or a three car set to operate these extended services.
Capacity is not an issue here but timing is.

[Arnz]

The reason why the trailing 3 cars are locked on Tennyson and Rosewood services is a result of the "Zero-harm" policy, rather than lack of staff or patronage.  

Before 'Zero-harm' was implemented to the Tennyson and Rosewood lines, guards regularly announced that passengers are to "move to the front 3 cars" for the short 3-car platform stations, though the back 3-cars weren't locked then.