Re: (OT) The new Jay Jay Jeans ads (the one with the ticket inspector)

[Tony Gatt <baulko@tig.com.au>]

Eddie Oliver wrote:

> David Johnson wrote:
>
> > I seem to recall that it was Victoria that was trialling the idea of shutting
> > the platform gates as the train was arriving at the platform...
>
> Trialling? It used to be standard practice at Melbourne suburban
> stations for the station attendant to shut the gate as the train came to
> a stand. When did that practice die out? When the doggies and Taits
> departed the scene?
>

Now that there are no station staff (unless it is a Premium station - and even then
its rare for them to leave the comfort of the office), the gates have been removed
from the stations.

I remember it happening, but when VR became the PTC, and econimic reform (False
economy) came to play, it started to disappear.

Most stations now just have a ticket machine for validation purposes.

>
> Eddie Oliver

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Thanks,

Tony Gatt.

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