Re: XPT thoughts

[G.Lambert@unsw.edu.au (Geoff Lambert)]

terry@cclru.unsw.edu.au (Terry Flynn) wrote:

>wrote:

>>Looking at the Grafton XPT docking and loading yesterday, a thought struck
>>me. The train is the wrong way around! First class passengers have to walk
>>the entire length of the train to get to their cars. The first class cars
>>should be closest to the buffer stop at Sydney Terminal. 

Survivors of the Southall accident on Friday publicly thanked their
lucky stars that they were 2nd-class smoking passengers...... the 1st
class were at the Paddington buffer-stop end of the HST (=XPT) and got
deaded.

Geoff Lambert