Re: Unbelievable! (NSW)

["Daniel Bowen" <dbowen@custard.REMOVE.net.au>]

I've heard a similar announcement at Glen Huntly (Melbourne), after getting
off the last train. I presume it was done remotely from Caulfield, the
nearest staffed station. They were remotely closing the shutters to the
waiting room, and someone was still in there.


Daniel
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Daniel Bowen, Melbourne, Australia
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"Ivan Smith" <ivsmith11@hotmail.nospam.com> wrote in message
tEIO6.71638$ff.551888@news-server.bigpond.net.au">news:tEIO6.71638$ff.551888@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> Place: Miranda Station
> Date: 22/05/01
> Time: 2255 (10:55PM)
>
> Announcement from station PA:
>
> "<tones> CityRail advises that the last trains have left the station. The
> station is now closed",
>
> Free spoken announcement by Chubb/CityRail Guard
>
> "<rustling microphone> All the trains to Cronulla have gone mate, that was
> the last one. The guy in the blue shirt, please make your way to the
station
> entrance"
>
> As the guy repeats this announcement the 2312 (12 past 11PM) to Cronulla
> turns up (late).
>
> I walked around to the ticket office to ask if the trains have really
> finished and noticed the Chubb guard in there with a woman in CityRail
garb,
> and they were fighting over control of the microphone.
>
> Bloody UNBELIEVEABLE, as it was very late and cold and raining and I was
> unaware that in their fair employment drive, CityRail had started
recruiting
> children!
>
> I'm sure 131500 would have known how to deal with that, NOT.
>
> Make of it what you will gunzels, commuters and SRA advocates, but in my
> book it's not on, cruel and childish, and gives me ammunition for
efficiency
> comments on the suburban CityRail system. I just wish more people than one
> other had of witnessed this mockery.
>
> The guy in the blue shirt wasn't me BTW.
>
> Ivan
>
>