Re: [Melb] Extra trains for reconciliation walk, Sunday

["James C." <james_ccj@my-deja.com>]

In article <90eebt$5gk$1@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>,
  "Stuart Thyer" <s.thyer@anatomy.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>
>
> ----------
> In article <KEHV5.264$xW4.1710@news-server.bigpond.net.au>, "Daniel
Bowen"
> <dbowen@custard.REMOVE.net.au> wrote:
>
> >Extra trains will be run by Connex and Bayside on Sunday morning for
the
> >reconciliation walk starting outside Flinders Street.
> >
> >Connex's website sums this up nicely as "Walk for Reconciliation,
Extra
> >trains 3 Dec" with absolutely no detail as to what or where these
extra
> >trains run.
> >
> >Bayside's website doesn't mention these at all,
>
> <SNIP>
>
> That's probably because the operators didn't have a clue what they
were
> doing. They refused Steamrail permission to run to Caulfield for the
> Caulfield-Bacchus Marsh train that had been in the pipeline for ages
and
> they didn't do that until Thursday 3pm!!
>
> Stuart

They certainly didn't have a clue what they were doing. All morning
<Burnley group> lines were very full, especially those in the morning
between 8am-9am. My train got soooooo full(more full then any of the
non-stop Richmond-Box Hill trains during any weekdays)
forced some people at Camberwell/Auburn/Glenferrie and Hawthron to take
the following service. I guess Connex didn't expect there would be so
many people turn up especially during that time of the day.

Also I saw Steve Bracks with his son at Botanic garden after the walk,
I didn't have a chance to ask him about the future hold for
Bairnsdale/Mildura/Ararat/Leogatha and Cobram line......

(I might throw a pie on his face if he say no :-)

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Cheers

Railway Rasputin


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