Re: [NSW] Indicator Board - Wrong Destination

["Dave Proctor" <thadocta@spambait.dingoblue.net.au>]

Dan wrote in message <883cki$7hp$1@the-fly.zip.com.au>...
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>Anita Lukaszyk <neety@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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>> > The 1800 Central - Lithgow service arrived at Platform 2, Parramatta
>> > yesterday with the indicator board showing destination Richmond,
>stopping
>> at
>> > Westmead, 7 Hills, all to Richmond with the corresponding announcement
>> being
>> > made.  The board and announcements were corrected but only after the
>train
>> > had stopped and people had commenced boarding.
>> > Needless to say many very pissed off passengers got off at Penrith in
>the
>> > knowledge that they had to backtrack to at least Blacktown to get home.
>> > These passengers had at least an extra hour (not to mention 40+km added
>to
>> > their journey).
>>
>> Wouldn't they realise the train was a Mountains train by just looking at
>it?
>> Most ppl can tell the difference...
>
>**Not if someone who is a tourist, elderly people or persons who cannot
>understand English...

But how many of them would there have been? And why wouldn't an elderly
person or a NESB person not realise the difference in trains (compared to
what they normally catch)?

Dave