CL wrote:
> Jim Breen wrote:

>>I think the カシオペア has only ever run once a day. It's the plain
>>old 北斗星 I meant. I can't find revised times on that site.
> 
> http://www.jreast.co.jp/cassiopeia/hokutosei/time.html#a3

My 2000 時刻表  showed 4 sleepers per night between Sapporo and Ueno -
the Cassiopeia, which left Sapporo at 1622, and three 北斗星: the
2号 (1715), 82号 (1815) and 4号 (1925). I presume it's the latter 3 that
are being reduced.

That page indeed only shows one train/night. By Googling, I found
an older version of the page, and there were two/night (2号 and 4号).
So it seems they'd already cut back and are now going down to
one/day. Quite a reduction.

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Jim Breen        http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/
Clayton School of Information Technology,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia
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