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Re: NSW Rail scandals
- Subject: Re: NSW Rail scandals
- From: The Railway Rasputin II <bob@fastlink.com.au>
- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 01:37:36 +1100
- Newsgroups: aus.rail
- Organization: Customer of Telstra Big Pond Direct
- References: <38D848A7.EB6B8983@ezy.net.au>
- Xref: bclass.spectrum.com.au aus.rail:4289
We have been saying for years to ditch this poor excuse of a system and
go back to NSWGR !
rgds
"M.J. Scott" wrote:
>
> It seems that the disasters afflicting rail op's in NSW seem to have
> begun since the old NSWGR was turned into alphabet soup, e.g Rail
> AccessCorp, Rail Services, Freightrail etc.
>
> Little of this crap seemed to occur when I was a signalman and later
> Relief ASM. Then the Commissioner had a daily meeting with the Chief
> Traffic Manager, and the various engineers:
> Mechanical, Electrical, Signal, Civil, and sorted out the previous day's
> problems.
>
> It's worth speculating on the fact that the NSWGR operated from 1926 to
> 1948 without a single passenger fatality, right thru WW II and remember
> how many more pass trains ran then!
>
> Oljoe