> Advice to passengers by train crew was inadequate and far too slow;
I agree.
> The army of men who began appearing about 20 minutes of so after the
> derailment made no obviouls contribution to the process of fixing the
> problem;
Not much they can do until the arrival of the Breakdown Crew from Enfield. They
can hardly pick the train up themselves.
> It took a woman to sort things out and assume some authority. That was 90
> minutes after the derailment.
Probably because she was the first CountryLink person to arrive. All the others
would most likely have been CityRail or RSA employees.
-- David Johnson CityRail Guard trainman@ozemail.com.au http://www.ozemail.com.au/~trainman/