Sunshine Coast Line : Delays for AUGUST 2014

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August delays thus far ... to SC commuters.
This is my 37th 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 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'll find out in SEPTEMBER what that spend may be.

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?
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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Friday August 01, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 12 minutes late  A 'false alarm' evacuation (better that than a real one) at The Mayne Train Control Centre stopped all rail network services.

Friday August 01, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time
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Monday August 04, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 2 minutes late

Monday August 04, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 2 minutes early
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Tuesday August 05, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 2 minutes late

Tuesday August 05, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time  within 2 minutes of timetable
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Wednesday August 06, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time

Wednesday August 06, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 2 minutes early
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Monday August 11, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 2 minutes late

Monday August 11, 2014
4:40 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 26 minutes late   signal fault/power outage at Mooloolah station
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Thursday August 14, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time  within 2 minutes of timetable

Thursday August 14, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time  within 2 minutes of timetable
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Friday August 15, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time  within 2 minutes of timetable

Friday August 15, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time  within 2 minutes of timetable
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Monday August 18, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time  within 2 minutes of timetable

Monday August 18, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 1 minute early  actually 3 seconds early (my watch synchronised daily)
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Wednesday August 20, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 2 minutes late

Wednesday August 20, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Central on time
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Thursday August 21, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 4 minutes late

Thursday August 21, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 2 minutes late
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Friday August 22, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 3 minutes late

Friday August 22, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 1 minute early
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Monday August 25, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 2 minutes late

Monday August 25, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time
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Tuesday August 26, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time

Tuesday August 26, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time  within 2 minutes of timetable
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Wednesday August 27, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 2 minutes late

Wednesday August 27, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time 
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Thursday August 28, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time  within 2 minutes of timetable

Thursday August 28, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 2 minutes early
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Friday August 29, 2014
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time

Friday August 29, 2014
5:04 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 1 minute early
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