Re: (NSW) City Circle Indicator Boards etc

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In article <_bK25.226930$VR.3478654@news5.giganews.com>,
  "Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> "Eric Cartman" <erkV69@erk.au.com> wrote in message
> 394b6acd@news.iprimus.com.au">news:394b6acd@news.iprimus.com.au...
> > If passengers were to use the Nightsafe areas like they are supposed
to
> > (needs more promotion?), there would be no problem.
>
> Better operation of Nightsafe would also be better. There should be
"NS"
> marks (like the 4, 6 and 8 car marks) where the driver should stop
when in
> Nightsafe mode.

Yeah - it is the 4 car mark.

> An example is a station like Newtown, where the steps are at the very
far
> end of platform at the country end. Ideally, the "NS" mark for trains
> travelling in a DOWN direction would be positioned two car lengths
past the
> end of the platform, so that the back two cars were on the platform,
> adjacent to the stairs.

But, due to overcrowding at Town Hall, the guard opened another carriage
, but the driver got relieved at Central and the new driver didn't
realise, so he puts one carload of passengers in the tunnel scrambling
along beside the train as it starts to pull off....

> Stations like Wynyard would have the "NS" marks positioned so that the
open
> carriages were in the middle of the platform, and the rest of the
platform
> could then be closed off.

Like Town Hall platform 5 is - the barricades prevent passengers getting
off in the Nightsafe area from walking along the platform without moving
the barriers first.

Take a look at Sydenham Number 6 - The Nightsafe area is right near the
stairs - about 5 metres from the 4 car marker.   Brain dead morons
strike again.


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