Re: The Late Sydney Rail System

["Hubert Lam" <hubert@imap4.com>]

Hurstville's announcement and indicator board system is known as Station
Passenger Information--the announcements are automatic (i.e. are connected
to track circuits) and indicator boards update themselves unless there are
late trains.

  the problem is late trains that are not reported/reported not fast enough.
that's when you have the "due in" time down to "0" min.

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> > Passenger "mis-information" is indeed the most pressing problem.  If I
> > knew that the next fast train was going to be 20 minutes late or be
> > cancelled I could catch the all stations train and get home reasonably
> > satisfied.
>
> i agree here, at hurstville they never tell you that the train is
> running late until the due in time switches to "0" then they tell you
> and the destination board changes. Only if a train is running hideously
> (20 odd) minutes late will they inform you before hand. Is this due to
> the fact that anything south of Oately is "Black territory"?
>
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