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Re: [Sydney] All singing, all dancing announcements at Central
- Subject: Re: [Sydney] All singing, all dancing announcements at Central
- From: Anita Lukaszyk <neety@iprimus.com.au>
- Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 11:51:07 +1100
- Newsgroups: aus.rail
- Organization: Another Optus Customer
- References: <4g68tsg3867akr8a3j38c3il11gl9ve7hr@4ax.com>
- Xref: bclass.spectrum.com.au aus.rail:20037
carrington wrote:
>
> Seen at 2300hrs the last 2 nights (Wed 27 & Thu 28/09/00) at Central
> station - a group of about 10-12 of the "younger" station staff,
> nicely lined up facing oncoming arriving passengers from Olympic
> trains.
They had one of the DM's with them the other other night.
I've seen it being done around 21:30-22:30 the last few days.
> The staff all have their Star Wars crowd direction red-lit wands, and
> sing (chant) platform directions for travellers and do a little
> 1-2-3-4, 1-2-3-4, 1-2-3-4 step in time with the chant :
>
> "Platform six-teen North shore line,
> Platform (something somewhere else)
> Suburban trains just walk this way
> Platform twent-four etc etc"
Platform 17 Circular Quay, 18/19 Western Lines.
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Anita Lukaszyk
neety@iprimus.com.au
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