Re: [nsw]CityRail Guessing Games start for 2000

["The Railway Rasputin II." <bob@fastlink.com.au>]

Have they fixed up the errors in their carriage listings??

rgds

Bill McNiven wrote:
> 
> The Year 2000 CityRail guessing game has started.  The game consists of
> reading the CityRail web pages at http://www.cityrail.nsw.gov.au/upgrading
> and trying to guess what train service will really be operating.
> 
> This week, the web site told us
> North Shore Line
> 2.50am Saturday 22 January until 2.00am Monday 24 January
> Buses will replace trains in both directions between Berowra, Hornsby and
> Wynyard. Please allow for an additional journey time of 30 minutes.
> 
> What the web site might have added ...
> * North Shore trains will not run between Central and North Sydney.
> * Customers from Strathfield (and beyond) travelling to North Sydney will
> experience minor delays between Redfern and Sydney Terminal as 15
> trains/hour make their way to apparently random platforms.
> * Customers alighting at Sydney Terminal will not be bothered by any
> platform announcements or signage.  Those familiar with Sydney Terminal will
> be able to find the main concourse ticket barriers and enquire there.
> Others may, out of pure Lemming instinct, proceed to Central Electric
> platforms 16/17, where announcements will advise that a bus service will be
> provided between Wynyard and Berowra.
> * Customers will find the usual frequent City Circle service operating from
> platform 17.  As it's the height of the Sydney Festival, all trains will be
> full.
> * Customers may encounter amusing announcements at Town Hall.  (Around 16:45
> on Saturday I heard "attention please on platform 6 please ignore the
> indicator board this train will stop at Wynyard and Circular Quay ONLY".
> Was it then tabled to vanish off the track circuit?)
> * Customers who haven't completed previous guessing games successfully may
> become lost at Wynyard, as the "CityRail Bus" signs lead to the pedestrian
> tunnel under the former Transport House to Clarence St., not to the
> better-known York St. escalators.
> * Customers returning from the North Shore or the city to Strathfield and
> beyond will be entertained.  Particularly entertaining at Town Hall around
> 17:10 was the announcement every two minutes to a deserted platform 3
> "Attention Customers! A bus service will be operating between Wynyard and
> Berowra via the North Shore CityRail regrets the delay and any inconvenience
> caused".  (To have mentioned that the trains to Wynyard were departing from
> platform 6 would have spoiled the guessing game?)
> * At Central Electric platform 19 there will be clear announcements that
> Penrith, Richmond and Hornsby via Strathfield trains depart from platforms 4
> to 15.  (The sequence of departures around 17:20 was platforms 15, 8, ?, 8,
> 6.)
> * Western Line passengers desiring information on stopping patterns are
> strongly invited to walk from platform to platform checking indicators until
> they find a train that stops at, say, Wentworthville.  Since the video
> screen on platform 15 doesn't work, this will be a whole new bonus guessing
> game.  (I noticed some  passengers using this procedure joining Inter-City
> trains for Parramatta etc. that didn't leave for ages!)
> * Passengers for Hornsby via Strathfield should note that their trains will
> depart one minute earlier than usual so as to ensure "an additional journey
> time of 30 minutes".
> 
> Rgds
> 
> Bill :-)