Re: [nsw]CityRail Guessing Games start for 2000

[David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>]

Nihonga wrote:

> >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?)
>
> hehe. that reminds me of another great de-railment story that happened
> in december last year when it went off the rails outside North sydney.
> That was the time when I wasn't even thinking of saying something in
> this newsgroup.
> Well i got to Hornsby, told the train was terminating, got off and rang
> work to say I could be late. As I'm a "non-thinking" passneger, it took
> a lot of energy and great time to figure out that maybe if I go down
> the northern line I could get to work. Low and behold, a lot of the
> other non -thinking passengers thought this as well and got on. No
> worries until central where it aited a while. I'm thinking this is ok,
> I understand as there is a de-railment. At central the announcement
> said get out at wynard for a bus service to North sydney. A guy i know
> who works at north sydney jumped out of the train and caught the other
> train to the city as it would get to wynard faster. I stayed on.
> Town hall "change at wynard etc" the guard also told us this. At wynard
> we get told this service will go to North sydney. I felt sorry for the
> people that got off at wynard.
> Why all of a sudden this change in heart?

It was because the line was closed.  When your train arrived at Central the line
was still closed.  By the time it got to Wynyard, the line had been opened, so
they let it go through to reduce the inconvenience to the customers.


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David Johnson
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