During at least some of the time I was at South Melbourne between 1988 and 1994 there was a separate Block for Fridays. There were some extra services but at this stage I can’t recall what, but Friday always had been the busiest day of the week.
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> On 28 Nov 2020, at 7:37 pm, Andrew C andrewhighriser@...> wrote:
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> Going back a long time with some very un-expertise knowledge, all depots had a Monday to Friday timetable, with the exception of Essendon Depot and maybe Brunswick too, whereby there was a different timetable for Fridays to cope with the extra loading and traffic associated with the busyness of Victoria Market. Maybe around 2000 Malvern Depot changed to a Monday to Thursday timetable and a separate Friday timetable, but they were identical for some years after.
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> Andrew.
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>> On Sat, 28 Nov 2020 at 14:13, Mal Rowe mal.rowe@...> wrote:
>> A request for information from Ian Brady ...
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>> A question: why does Yarra trams issue timetables for Mondays to
>> Thursday, and another for Fridays.
>> Many that I have looked at have a minute difference between both but
>> others are different.
>> Are traffic demands between the two days vary that much?
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>> On route 58, M-Th shows early morning trips to W Coburg from Melbourne
>> Hospital which don’t appear in the Fridays tt.
>> Compiled by different people?
>> Seems hardly necessary nowadays.
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>> Perhaps when you have time could you ask this of experts on TDU?
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>> I'm assuming that some of the differences will be the result of late
>> night shopping (and 'drinks after work') on Friday nights.
>> The early moring trips originating at Melbourne Hospital are presumably
>> trams coming in to service ex Essendon depot, but why not on Friday?
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>> As Ian says - expert advice welcome.
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>> Mal
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