Re: Oh what fun it is too ride...

["philippa rogers" <pmrogers@iinet.net.au>]

Nihonga <tony.patonNOtoSPAM@griffithhack.com.au.invalid> wrote in message
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> Are the trains in Sydney ever going to get there act together?
> Yesterday I was siiting outside the sheds near Asquith for 30mins
> inside a train that had only small windows. I felt sorry for a pregnant
> lady who had to sit in this while her husband was ringing her on the
> mobile every 5 minutes.
> The guard stated it was a track failure. What sort was it? There were
> no work crews fixing any section of track. Anyhow people were
> commenting how bad the service is getting.
> It only got better this morning. Who ever was driving the 7.20am train
> from Berowra down the North Shore was obviously on something. He came
> into Mt Colah the slowest I have seen any train. And this was a
> Tangara. We then took off for Asquith. Asquith sailed by with the
> driver slamming on the brakes then reversing back to Asquith.Some of
> the People, who were on yesterdays train, were on this one a started
> laughing and shaking heads. Every station he pulled in far too slow,
> tried to stop at artarmon and wollstonecraft etc when he wasn't meant
> to. Tried to get around the tight turns past St leonards at a far
> greater speed than supposed to. To top it all off the airconditioning
> stopped for 15mins. It was getting hard to breathe and people were
> getting stressed. Especially the older passengers.
> When will this madness end?
> I'll just have to wait until this afternoon.
>
>
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