Re: Railway weekly notices

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

"paul" <paulwatts@xoptushome.com.au> wrote in message
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| 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| wheelie bins with out of date STN's. No doubt this is still happening.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.


Then of course, 20 Drivers and guards signing on within 30 minutes of each
other will want a copy of that 400 page STN.