Re: Another rail whinge? No,I'm in Brisbane.

[Tell <telljb@ozemail.com.au>]

Just heard Andrew, that Labor have been returned with a
dirty big majority.  :)

....Tell



>andrew hebron <androoh@uq.net.au> wrote:

> Well,all the staff I have come across at QR and in particular the
> suburban trains and stations have been very friendly and helpful.
>  The only thing I think that QR should do is shoot the little mongrels
> that spray paint the sound barriers on the line side.
> 
> My station master at Deagon station is always a happy sorta chap.The
> driver gives me a smile as he pulls up.Even the ticket inspectors are
> polite,even if you don't have a ticket I have have been told.
> 
> QR also has a keen interest in running steam tours too.The Bayer Garrat
> is poetry in motion.Get the video,as it has Maurie Fields doing the
> narration as well.Nice bit of kit that tape.
> Having only been in Brisbane since 97 leaving southern Sydney,I am
> impressed by the way the network is operated.Trying to get into QR is
> held in the same regard as getting into Qantas.Very hard and no lack of
> applicants.This is why the staff are a nice as the ones I have dealt
> with.Weeded out the slackos.
> The guage might be narrow,but they do turn a profit.
> From the other threads I have read in this ng,there is a lot of
> unhappiness in the Cityrail group.SRA,PTC or what ever the latest
> incarnation is.
> 
> But there are positives to be found out in the merit based system of
> promotion.Seems to work up here in Brisbane.
> Also,if you're whinging about your lousy managment,can't do anything
> about it,change jobs! I did.
> I got so sick of the crap my old trade was pumping out to the public,I
> changed fields altogether.(I'm 38 btw).
> The loco drivers I know of are climbing the ladder.One is about as far
> away as one can get from Sydney in this country and driving trains
> longer than some suburbs are wide and for a lot more money too.(and with
> some awsome equipment).
> 
> Santa Cluas came down my local branch at Christmas time to Shorncliffe
> by steam.That never happened on the Illawarra line...
> 
> Thanks QR.
> 
> ps thanks for sending me the extra literature and return my calls
> regarding rail holidays and when the G.S.E. is due to come by one of my
> local level crossings.
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