Re: I'm Shocked!

["Eric Cartman" <erk_cartman@yahoo.com>]

Trainman

You are probably right about the fact that it should not be mentioned. I was
just highlighting the paradox of events (esp in this NG) about delays and
late running.

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Eric
http://www.erk.au.com
David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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| Eric Cartman wrote:
|
| > 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.
|
| We hear about so many of them that it is really nothing out of the
ordinary.  I
| feel it is not something that really should be mentioned.
|
|
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| David Johnson
| trainman@ozemail.com.au
| http://www.ozemail.com.au/~trainman/
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