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

["Johann Fan" <jyf-x@optusnet.com.au>]

Victorian hijack! =)

Yarra trams seems to be more customer focused now. I have seen several "CSE"
who weren't interested in checking tickets but more helping people with
questions, changing manual points for drivers, saying good morning to
passengers, etc. More and more like conductors I'd say!  They seem to work
in the anti-peak direction (ie outbound on 75 in the mornings) within the
city area.

Well done I must say.

cheers
Johann

andrew hebron <androoh@uq.net.au> wrote in message
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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).
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> Santa Cluas came down my local branch at Christmas time to Shorncliffe
> by steam.That never happened on the Illawarra line...
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> Thanks QR.
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> 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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