Re: [NSW] Automated "Stand clear, doors closing"

["Chris Downs" <cvdowns@ozemail.com.au>]

Barry Campbell <campblbm@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> Chris Downs wrote in message ...
> >I caught The Chips from Emu Plains to Hazelbrook last night and again
this
> >train (an 8 car V set) had the automated "stand clear, doors closing"
> >announcements.  The Chips was 9 minutes late (as was everything else on
the
> >down through Penrith) but lost a further 7 minutes on the 42 minute
> section.
> >
> >The time was lost at 4 or 5 stations where the doors were closed
subsequent
> >to "the" announcement but ceased to move.  Someone travelling with the
> >driver made his way through the train on two occasions cursing the train
> >savagely at one point.  I assume that one door was failing to close that
> >last few inches and the brakes are interlocked with the doors so they
> didn't
> >release.
> >
> >On departure from Hazelbrook it appeared that two other staff (presumably
> >CityRail) were located in the vestibules monitoring door operation.
> >
> >Does anyone have any details on the full scope of this programme?
> >
> It seems to me that southerners are different to us here in the north.
> "Doors closing, please stand clear" booms out in perfectly modulated
English
> on all Brisbane suburban trains and they don't run late. What's more they
> are clean, ungraffitied and display the correct destination.
>
> Perhaps we should have the Olympics in Brisbane ***** Not.
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> Barry Campbell
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