Re: [NSW] City Rail

["James C" <jamesccj@optusnet.com.au>]

Day one:

V set : Sydney-Dapto
Endeavour: Dapto- Nowra

Day two:

V set: Sydney-Newcastle (hang around the beach and had some morning tea)
Endeavour: Newcastle- East Maitland

Day Three

Comeng...er...no......V set  (sorry....getting a bit homesick) Sydney-ZigZag
all the way there and all the way back


Cheers
James









Dave Proctor <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> "James C" <jamesccj@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
> news:3944d45f$0$497$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au...
> > I took a Endreavour service from Sydney to Nowra in Febrary
>
> An Endeavour from Sydney to Nowra? What time of the day does this run?
>
> >and the staff were very friendly
>
> You sure this was CityRail? :-)
>
> > all the way with clear announcement
>
> You sure this was CityRail? :-)
>
> > where to change train
> > etc. The very next day  and the day after nest I took a train from
Sydney
> to
> > Maitland East and Zig Zag respectly I found the staffs/train guards are
> all
> > very freidnly and helpful. And I travelled during weekdays. (off peak
> > thou.....)
>
> 99% of the staff I deal with are very very very helpful and know that they
> are in a public service role.
>
> Then there are the idiots like the booking clerk at Penrith this morning.
I
> had my mothers pension card (having a weekly for myself) and I wanted to
buy
> a $1 pensioner ticket. I had just been to the bank and the only money I
had
> on me was a $50 note (NO coins at all). The booking clerk kicked up an
> almighty fuss about tendering a $50 note for a $1 ticket, and then
proceeded
> to take out a wad of $20 notes (about $400 worth, at a rough guess) to
> provide change.
>
> What was his problem? He obvioulsy had the change, 5 x $50's is easier to
> cash up with at the end of the shift compared to 13 x $20's, all he
> succeeded in doing was making a scene when no scene needed to be made.
> Idjuts like him are gives the vast majority of decent CityRail employees a
> bad name.
>
> Dave
>
>