Sunday, April 22, 2012

New Metro timetable - 10 min frequencies for Ringwood, Dandenong and Frankston as three new stations open

Today four big things happened to transform train services in Melbourne. 

* The Epping line gains another station with an extension to South Morang, the subject of a community campaign for many years. 

* New stations opened at Cardinia Rd on the Pakenham line and Lynbrook on the Cranbourne line. Both serve growth area catchments. 

* Weekend train services to Ringwood, Dandenong and Frankston were doubled from every 20 to every 10 minutes between approximately 10am and 7pm. This provided turn-up-and-go service over most of the day. However weekend evening and Sunday morning headways remained at every 30 minutes. 

* Extra run time was added to Metro timetables, making punctuality targets easier to achieve. And indeed there was a major improvement in reported punctuality after this change. 

More on page 6 of the DoT Annual Report: 

Note: This item has been added retrospectively for posterity. 


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