Another completely un-boring weekend (continued)

Sunday we had the 'Carols by candlelight' at the lake, so, as usual, we had a shuttle service to/from the event. This has become a regular thing; if there's an event in town, and we go past it, we run a passenger service (which we call a shuttle service). So I conducted Sunday evening/night.

So, I worked with one of our drivers who has driven trams in Melbourne, and I have to say, I was really great having a driver who respects the timetable! Some of our drivers are happy to leave a bit early; I'm not. And the conductor is in charge of keeping time, just as the driver is. So, if we get to a stop early, and the lights turn green/white - stiff shit, we leave on time, not early. So my driver on Sunday is now my favourite.

We ran a 24-min service, but with no depot stopover, the round trip was rated for 48 mins instead of the usual 72 (talking tram service trip is 72 mins). Even with that, the timetable was really flexible, we could have shaved maybe 6 or so mins off that if we tried. so next time, we might end up with a 20-min service, who knows. As it was, there was a reasonable amount of passengers, and quite a few commented that we should run a passenger service more regularly - they really enjoyed not having to drive. We get comments like that quite often, but from out of town visitors, it means little. When locals are saying it however, it means something. So who knows what might happen...
If anything does happen though, it'll be a long time 'till we see anything though, it's not gonna happen yet.

Running trams at night was a new experience for me; every time we went over a section insulator, all the lights blink. Just enough to really muck with your head too, as you're plunged into complete darkness, and before your brain can handle this new input, the light comes back on. It was very disorienting, but you get used to it.

For the day it was though, I'm glad I brought an energy drink with me. Definitely had fun though.