XPT is still in use due to the lack of trains, delay new orders
Prime Minister Act Andrew Barr, who has long makes a campaign For improvements to training services between the capital of the nation and Sydney, he said a reduction in travel time, greater frequency and an improved program were short -term improvements to which he was working. “New broth on the path would help achieve these goals,” he said.
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The need to remove Xpt trains from the service to allow them to be updated will involve two of the six daily rail services between Sydney and Grafton who are replaced with the coaches at the end of the month for about a year.
The CEO of the NSW Trainlink Roger Weeks declared at the hearing that the replacement coach services would allow to speed up the update of the XPT fleet, but it observed that the latter would not have increased the train capacity.
“The program of extension of life (for the XPT fleet) will not give us any additional capacity, so we are not getting set of extra trains,” he said. “We have no ability to increase the number of XPT services we are performing.”
Questioned on the increase in railway services for the casino and other parts of the northern rivers, Aitchison said that it was difficult to wear more railway services when the existing Xpt fleet was able and needed significant work. “The problem of stocks is difficult,” he said.
The first XPT – which stands for “Express Passenger Trains” – started operating about 43 years ago and transport passengers between Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Dubbo, Grafton and Casino.
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