Re: (mel) Numbers in windows.

["Ben" <smithb@alphalink.com.au>]

"Sam Eades" <seades@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
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> Ben <smithb@alphalink.com.au> wrote in message
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> > Hi all,
> >
> > Does anyone know what the large black numbers inside the non driving
side
> > windscreen of Connex's trains mean? I saw a few this arvo. The numbers I
> saw
> > were 8?, 81, 80, 78 and 71. Does this phenomena have anything to do with
> the
> > new timetable?
>
> They were to do with the Catholic Mass today. There were so many special
> trains running around for it, there was a number put in the window of
every
> special (and some regular) service. This indicated to the CSE assisting
the
> school which train it was and which school should go where. I had to stick
> about 6 lots of these numbers on!  Interesting to note that some had
> different numbers at each end!! (the train had already done one special
and
> turned around to form another!) The numbers were from 1 to the high 80s.
>
Some trains still have the numbers today(17/11), saw a hitachi stabled at
Macleod with the numbers in the window. In the city rail tradition I dubbed
it set H69. Yes that is right the Hitachi had #69 in the window.

Ben Smith