Re: (NSW) City Circle Indicator Boards etc

[magilla gorrila <choochoo@spin.net.au>]

In the timetable if a run number is in the 100's it should be 6 cars below 100
8 cars and if the run number has an A or B it should be 4 cars. Of course it
could be different if the trains have transposed to a different run. Most of
the time the station staff are just plain lazy or incompetent.

Rob McKiernan wrote:

> Folks,
> How is it communicated to the stations in the city circle how many cars
> there are in the approaching run?. I would think it is by timetable /
> composition list ? Anyway, on a service on the inner west, the 17:12 from
> Town Hall, the monitor always says it's an 8 car set but it invariably ends
> up being a 6 car C Set of late which causes heaps of scrambling from
> everyone waiting at the front of the platform....not good with the narrow
> platforms.
> Is it a replacement set or do all C sets run as 6 cars because the 08:22
> from Newtown is also a 6 car set which is always packed and running late.
>
> Thanks,
> Rob