Rail commuting stats non-CBD based IPS & CAB from the 2012Q1 survey

[somebody]

Caboolture line

Station			Boardings	Alightings
			PM outbound	AM inbound
Caboolture			138	64
Morayfield			17	17
Burpengary			26	25
Narangba			27	25
Dakabin			10	42
Petrie			305	210
Lawnton			37	33
Bray Park			45	125
Strathpine			169	182
Bald Hills			65	68
Carseldine			31	42
Zillmere			93	180
Geebung			86	145
Sunshine			75	160
Virginia			56	60
Northgate			374	370
Nundah			156	138
Toombul			266	478
Eagle Junction			281	384
Wooloowin			102	121
Albion			183	160
			2542	3029

Compare that to 19113 inbound boardings on the Caboolture line (Including Albion-Northgate).  Around 15% aren't going the whole distance.

Ipswich Line:

Station			Boardings	Alightings
			PM outbound	AM inbound
Ipswich			43	56
East Ipswich			8	14
Booval			26	8
Bundamba			21	72
Ebbw Vale			6	4
Dinmore			22	70
Riverview			16	9
Redbank			44	70
Goodna			86	63
Gailes			22	28
Wacol			31	84
Richlands			0	0
Darra			324	377
Oxley			44	38
Corinda			52	266
Sherwood			39	58
Graceville			47	28
Chelmer			25	91
Indooroopilly			586	999
Taringa			84	101
Toowong			468	382
Auchenflower			167	143
Milton			614	622
			2775	3583

Compare that against 16455 inbound boardings on the Ipswich, Richlands and Rosewood lines.  A tad over 20% aren't going the entire way!

The point:  Counter peak deserves more than the current miserable 4tph to Northgate/Darra and 2tph to Ipswich/Caboolture, stopping all stations in the latter case.  Unfortunately, the statistics do not include what is happening in the reverse direction.  They do infer what might happen with improved serivces.

[somebody]

The current network is purely peak flow based. The higher than off-peak frequency for counter-peak services is mostly based on the need to move the former peak flow trains somewhere.

Agree that they are probably not getting the best deal, but other lines where there is single track is worse.

It doesn't actually happen that there is higher than off peak revenue services for counter peak, except to Yeerongpilly.  The actuality is that there are larger than off peak service gaps for counter peak.