Re: [NSW] CityRail fixed up it's act?

[David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>]

Rod Gayford wrote:

> Unfortunately the Friday 8:00 AM From Cheltenham to City semi express was
> routed into Platform 1 at Strathfield (instead of the flyover) and continued
> on the main all the way to McDonaldtown were the guard announced a short
> delay due to signals.  The train proceeded after a fairly long delay but did
> not cross over to the suburban lines. It stopped at the next signal and the
> guard announced (somewhat embarrassed he was) that the train would proceed
> to Central Terminus due to an earlier incident on platform 3 at Redfern.
> The train stopped at Platform 1 Redfern were the guard then announced "that
> you had better change trains here".  The train then proceeded to platform 3
> at Central Terminus. You should have seen the crush as passengers tried to
> get up to platforms 16/17 as the same time as passengers tried to get down
> the steps.  I gave up and ducked back up to Platform 14/15 and went down the
> stairs that join up to the suburban platforms. What a bloody awful stuff up.
> I suspect the real reason that a path couldn't be found for my train to
> cross to the suburban lines so the excuse of an incident at Platform 3
> Redfern was cooked up.

Did you actually look at Platform 3?  A casual observer states that there were a
large number of police/ambulance type people there.  The delay at MacDonaldtown
was probably caused by the driver challenging the road into Sydney Terminal.
That is the point of no return for the North Shore.  I suspect that the crush at
16/17 Central would have been avoided had the passengers actually listened to
the Guard's advise to change at Redfern.


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