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Originally Posted by Truenorth00
Frequencies are probably down about 40%. But that doesn't means squat all when the current times are just unworkable for the Lakeshore. Kingston becoming a hub and starting trains there means they can commute to Ottawa and Toronto, with departure times catered to them. And building this hub was a condition of the Lakeshore communities supporting them. VIA met with all the councils en route and proposed a service that works.
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Not even.
This twitter post claims that there will be 12 trains between Toronto and Kingston, 6 trains between Kingston and Ottawa and 6 trains between Kingston and Montreal. Not only will the schedule frequency be optimized for service to communities on the lakeshore, but more trains will stop at many of the smaller stations. As I discussed in
this post, other thank Oshawa and Kingston (which had 14 and 13 departures respectively, representing a 17% and 8% reduction respectively), most cities had fewer than 12 daily departures and thus see an increase in the number of daily departures.
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The exact mix just won't be known till service gets underway. We know that there are 7 cars in the extra long set and 3 cars in the extra short set and configs in between. The base config will be the 5 car long set with 87 business seats and 194 economy seats. The contract was for 9120 seats on 32 trains.
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I expect the trainsets will be using semi-permanent couplers. This means that while they won't be able to reconfigure them on the fly, they can add and remove cars as needed in the shop. That way during low periods, they can remove unnecessary cars and ramp up the regular maintenance and during periods of high demand, additional cars can be added to meet the demand.
Interesting. I hadn't seen those reports. Summarizing the information from those reports, I get the following configurations:
Business Economy Cab
Type cars seats 3A 3B 1A 1B 4A
Extra short 3 176 1 0 1 0 1
Short 4 242 1 0 1 1 1
Long 5 285 1 1 1 1 1
Extra long 7 418 1 1 2 2 1
Doing a bit of math (easier than counting seats), I was then able to calculate the number of passenger seats in each car type as follows:
Type Seats
Business 3A 44
Business 3B 43
Economy 1A 67
Economy 1B 66
Econ.Cab 4A 65
I expect a type 2 car is some type of lounge that VIA elected not to purchase.