Greetings.

In article , Paul Corfield
wrote:
On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:32:09 +0000, Tristan Miller
wrote:

Stations for the GO Transit system don't usually have such indicators,
but I don't know what you count as being "analogous to Crossrail".

RER in Paris [1], S Bahn in Germany, main line profile cross city lines
in Italy (Milan), City Rail in Sydney (has several tunnel sections),
Thameslink? I'm excluding Metros and Subways as they are usually not
main line profile / capacity.

I haven't used Go Transit in Toronto but most main line rail lines on
the North American continent are nowhere near as frequent or as
intensively used as those in Europe or Asia. New York and Boston might
provide exceptions to this.

GO Transit, actually -- the first word is (or was) an acronym for
"Government of Ontario". According to their website
http://www.gotransit.com/public/en/aboutus/whatisgo.aspx, there are 7
lines serving 59 stations and running on 390 km of track. The fleet is 42
trainsets consisting collectively of 70 locomotives and 495 bi-level
passenger cars. Each weekday there are 185 train trips with a total
ridership of 180,000. However, the main east-west lines, running from
Hamilton to Toronto and Toronto to Oshawa, are by far the busiest,
accounting for about half the ridership. On those two lines there seems to
be about one train per hour for most of the day, and three trains per hour
at peak times.

I'm not sure how these numbers compare to those of the systems you listed,
or to the numbers projected for Crossrail. Anyone?

Regards,
Tristan

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