Re: NSW State Rail...a nightmare that is getting worse

[Anita Lukaszyk <neety@ozemail.com.au>]

My comments are marked with *

Hubert Lam wrote:

> Trains around sector 3 (North Shore, Western Lines, Main North) are generally much cleaner for no
> apparent reason. Maybe people are more "civilised" (forgive me) around these areas. I'm not saying
> people in the south are uncivilised, but somehow when you look at trains from the south and compare
> them with the north, the north ones are MUCH cleaner. (and I've never smelt vomit on a sector 3
> maintained train)
> * I have to agree with you there Hubert. Some people/areas have more respect for property than others.
> (Flame me if you want, but its true) Last week, I was on a Tangara going from Liverpool the the City.
> EVERY car was filty. Biscuits crushed on the floor, soft drink bottles, etc. I have never encountered
> a train so filthy!
>
> > -ticketing police that have delusions of power. I once honestly lost my
> > ticket on a journey, only to be rudely slapped with a 100 dollar fine..even
> > though I had first walked to the ticket office at my destination and offered
> > payment. I explained that for years I had been a honest paying traveller,
> > and here I was with a  lost ticket offering to pay...not good enough.
>
> they don't usually appear on the Main North Line, for all that i can observe
> * I rarely see them out my way. Only about 3 or 4 times in the last year I have had them on my
> train/station.

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Anita Lukaszyk
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