Re: Bell station (NSW)

["avachat" <avachat@dingoblue.net.au>]

Tony Gatt <baulko@tig.com.au> wrote in message
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> "Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> > "Chris" <chrisc@fl.net.au> wrote in message 3a1a3bf4@fl.net.au">news:3a1a3bf4@fl.net.au...
> > > How do you get the train to stop if boarding from Bell?
> > > The driver is *supposed* to be going slow enough that if he or she
sees
> > someone on the platform, they can stop. *But* what if the train is late,
> and
> > the train is going fast, and you are obscured from the drivers view?
> >
> > Dave
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> Surely if you want to catch the train, you would make yourself visible.
> Not only visible but don't the passengers display a green disc by day and
a green light by night,
   They still do at Zig Zag.

> I doubt that any *sensible* person would sit in the confines of the
waiting
> room, and expect the driver to "potter" past and have a look for them.
>
> In NZ There are signs everywhere asking you to make yourself visible to
the
> driver even when the trains are scheduled to stop there :)
>
> Tony.
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