Re: Railway weekly notices

["Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au>]

"Eddie Oliver" <eoliver@efs.mq.edu.au> wrote in message
3ACB2AAF.1D3C7C63@efs.mq.edu.au">news:3ACB2AAF.1D3C7C63@efs.mq.edu.au...
| Tezza wrote:
| > "Philip Shortus" <Shortus@bigpond.com> wrote in message

| > | 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.

Very few Drivers, guards, inspectors, station staff or signallers read any
of them.