Re: (NSW) City Circle Indicator Boards etc

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>]

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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.

Reread what I wrote. There are some places where the four car mark is not
the best place to stop when the train is in Nightsafe mode.

> > 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....

If he did his job properly, he would see that there was an extra carriage
open.

Based on your reasoning, a driver who picked up an 8-car train when he was
expecting a 4-car train at a station where the 4/6/8 car marks are all at
the same place would always stop at the 4-car mark. It rarely happens. If we
can trust drivers to do their job properly with regard to different car
lengths, why can't we trust them to do their job properly WRT Nightsafe and
extra cars?

> > 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.

Platforms 5 & 6 at Town Hall have the advantage that both platforms have
trains travelling in the same direction. Places like Wynyard do not, so it
would involve stopping the trains in a different place for one of the
platforms for it to work.

> 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.

Will have to have a look next time I am there.

Dave