Re: [NSW] St. Leonards/Artarmon fatality (was: I'm Shocked!)

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

Sydney Middleclass Herald had a little square of around 3 by 3 cm coverage of the death.

I didn't know about it until only 40min ago when I opened today's copy of the Herald (which I get in
the morning but I would have left the house before the paper got delivered)

"Eric Cartman" <erk_cartman@yahoo.com> wrote in message 39128107$1@news.iprimus.com.au">news:39128107$1@news.iprimus.com.au...
> Hi all
>
> Last night (4/5/2000), there was a fatality between St Leonards and
> Artarmon. While all fatals have their tragic sides (train crew, victim's
> family etc etc), I was shocked about a couple of things:
>
> * It was only given a one paragraph section in the Friday Terrorgraph
> (regular readers of ausrail know my feelings there) and considering it was
> the North Shore, these things normally cause "outrage". I wonder if the
> Sydney Boring Herald was similar (it is too big for me, it takes up half of
> the crumple zone of a V set).
>
> * No mention of it here..............normally a train runs 2 minutes late or
> a garbled announcement sees a week's worth of threads.
>
> --
> Eric
> http://www.erk.au.com
>
>