Re: [NSW] OP Trains wrongly described

["Hubert Lam" <hubert@imap4.com>]

They don't want people not going to Olympic Park to get on, simple!

The Bankstown via Lidcombe all-stops from Central (platform 19) now has the
list of stopping stations described all the way past Bankstown to
Sydenham...so even though the destination says "Bankstown", the last station
on the list of scrolling stops is "Sydenham".



"Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
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> "Geoff Lillico" <glillic@msn.com.au> wrote in message
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> | Had the occasion to catch a train at Town Hall early this afternoon to
> | return me to Strathfield. The next train was indicated at Town Hall as
> | Blacktown bound and would be travelling via Olympic Park. The stopping
> | pattern as far as Strathfield was Central, Redfern, Burwood and
> Strathfield.
> | The next stop after Strathfield was indicated as Olympic Park followed
by
> | Lidcombe and whatever after that. Fine.
> | At Central, Redfern and Burwood the train was correctly indicated and
> | announced. However upon arrival at Strathfield both the station
> | announcements and the plasma screen had the train going direct to
Olympic
> | Park and TERMINATING.
> | Whilst this did not affect me, there were many confused and dismayed
> | passengers scrambling to alight as they did not wish to be turfed out at
> OP.
> | I firstly suggested to the safety jacketed station staff that the train
> was
> | wrongly described, but she showed no interest. Upon going down the ramp
I
> | approached the Station Manager, his assistant and others in a group at
the
> | Information Desk and advised that the staff on Platform 6 were not
> | indicating the train correctly.
> | The conversation was most polite and I have no corcern with their
approach
> | to me in that respect. However they advised that they indicated these
> trains
> | this way to avoid a lack of space for passengers wishing to join at OP
to
> | travel further westwards.
> |
> | OK I see their point, but this does not help the 300 or so passengers on
> the
> | train upon arrival at Strathfield who are faced with a prima facie case
of
> | the usual stuff up of station staff not correctly announcing trains.
> |
> | If CityRail wants to deter passengers joining these trains who wish to
> | travel beyond Olympic Park to (1) provide space for passengers joining
> there
> | and (2) funnel them on to the faster train following which does not
travel
> | via OP, then these trains should be shown at the stations before
> Strathfield
> | as terminating at OP.
>
> At Campbelltown they only announce that the train is going to OP, not
Sydney
> Terminal, they should be doing the same on the down.
>
>