Sunshine Coast Line : Delays for MARCH 2015

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March delays thus far ... to SC commuters.
This is my 44th month of detailed daily data recording.

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.

: 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 March 02, 2015
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time

Monday March 02, 2015
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time
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Tuesday March 03, 2015
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time  within 2 minutes of timetable

Tuesday March 03, 2015
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 1 minute early
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Wednesday March 04, 2015
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 3 minutes late

Wednesday March 04, 2015
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time
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Thursday March 05, 2015
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 19 minutes late  Broken down train at Eagle Junction caused inbound delays.

Thursday March 05, 2015
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 49 minutes late  signal (telemetry) failure Beerburrum (Note: It's single track) held up all north bound trains at Caboolture.
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Monday March 09, 2015
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time

Monday March 09, 2015
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 3 minutes late
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Tuesday March 10, 2015
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time

Tuesday March 10, 2015
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 1 minute early
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Wednesday March 11, 2015
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Fortitude Valley 2 minutes late

Wednesday March 11, 2015
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 4 minutes late
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Thursday March 12, 2015
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 1 minute early

Thursday March 12, 2015
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time  within 2 minutes of timetable
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Friday March 13, 2015
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time. within 2 minutes of timetable

Friday March 13, 2015
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 1 minute early
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Monday March 16, 2015
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 6 minutes late

Monday March 16, 2015
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time
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Tuesday March 17, 2015
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 20 minutes late  1 wire down at Bowen Hills caused by possum made network wide delays, 100m of wires down on Ferny Grove line (reason unreported)

Tuesday March 17, 2015
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 1 minute early
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Wednesday March 18, 2015
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time

Wednesday March 18, 2015
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

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

Arrived Central on time

Thursday March 19, 2015
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 12 minutes late  delayed just north of Landsborough by red signal along single line track
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Friday March 20, 2015
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time

Friday March 20, 2015
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods 3 minutes late
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Monday March 23, 2015
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time  within 2 minutes of timetable, ran express Northgate to Bowen Hills, saving 9 minutes (from Petrie)

Monday March 23, 2015
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time
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Tuesday March 24, 2015
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 2 minutes late

Tuesday March 24, 2015
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time
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Wednesday March 25, 2015
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 2 minutes late

Wednesday March 25, 2015
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time  within 2 minutes of timetable
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Thursday March 26, 2015
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time  within 2 minutes of timetable

Thursday March 26, 2015
5:00pm service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time  within 2 minutes of timetable
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Friday March 27, 2015
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time  within 2 minutes of timetable

Friday March 27, 2015
5:00pm service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time  within 2 minutes of timetable
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Monday March 30, 2015
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central 2 minutes late

Monday March 30, 2015
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time  within 2 minutes of timetable
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Tuesday March 31, 2015
6:14 AM service from Nambour to City

Arrived Central on time  within 2 minutes of timetable

Tuesday March 31, 2015
5:00 PM service from City to Nambour

Arrived Palmwoods on time
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