Re: Railway weekly notices

[paulwatts@xoptushome.com.au (paul)]

On Thu, 05 Apr 2001 09:33:39 +1000, Marvin The Martian
<choochoo@spin.net.au> wrote:

>STN's are produced by the thousands and read by dozens. At places like Liverpool,
>Campbelltown, Mortdale etc they get STN's relating to work bieng done where none
>of the crew there go eg. Newcastle
>
Dispatch sends numerous copies of every STN to these depot stations,
whwre the vast majority go unread. It isn't despatch's job to decde
who needs what, so everyone gets everyting. I worked at Blacktown for
years and every couple of weeks on backshift we'd fill up two or more
wheelie bins with out of date STN's. No doubt this is still happening.
Some of them are 400 pages in size. They are an environmental as well
as a financial nightmare.

I have long held (and suggested) that the Wide Area network ought to
be made operational at depots and stations and relevant timetable
information for relevant trains printed out on request of train crews.
Surely this would be a huge cost saving as well as environmentally
advantageous.


paul x is the spam filter
>Eddie Oliver wrote:
>
>> Tezza wrote:
>> >
>> > "Philip Shortus" <Shortus@bigpond.com> wrote in message
>> > 6%Ay6.8835$45.51681@newsfeeds.bigpond.com">news:6%Ay6.8835$45.51681@newsfeeds.bigpond.com...
>> > | Hey, do they still make railway weekly notices (aka. Railway circulars)
>> > for
>> > | the NSW railways, if so, does anyone have/know of any produced lately, I
>> > | think I saw one for the 75th anniversary of electric trains but I could be
>> > | wrong?
>> >
>> > Still produced by the thousands and read by the dozens.
>>
>> A classic reply, Tezza.
>>
>> The original enquirer seems to be a bit confused about different types
>> of documents. Weekly Notices and Circulars are not the same thing, and
>> probably the thing he saw about the 75th anniversary was different
>> again, viz. a Special Train Notice. There are other standard document
>> types as well, e.g. Weekly Speed Notices.
>>
>> Tezza might give a pertinent assessment of how many people read some of
>> these other document types.
>