Re: [melb] PIDs on Connex Comengs

["Paul" <none@news.com>]

"Jeremy Lunn" <spammers-will-die@austux.net> wrote :
> In article <9g761j$du4$1@bugstomper.ihug.com.au>, Paul wrote:
> >> It's also a little late to get of if you don't in fact want to
> >> go all the way to Camberwell...  That's still my number 1 gripe
> >> about Flinders Street - There is absolutely NO point AT ALL in
> >> announcing where a train is going, as it's pulling out of the
> >> station, especially when the train has been sitting there for
> >> five minutes without any announcement at all.
> >
> > Hang on.....PRIDE announcements are played at Flinders St as it arrives
and
> > will usually announce the stopping pattern immediately before departure
with
> > a "stand clear....train now departing...stand clear please" sound bite
> > attached.  I have heard messages whilst a train is sitting on the
platform.
>
> What if you get on at Parliment in a hurry then depart Richmond a few
> minutes later to find out the train runs express when you wanted to get
> off at Hawthorn?

What does announcements at Flinders Street have to do with Parliament and
Richmond stations?