Re: Woman killed in fall from XPT

["Jack" <bd107@tsn.cc>]

David Bradshaw wrote in message <367994B5.38CD@ozemail.com.au>...
>> >Why an older person would be thrown out I do not know.]
>>
>> Maybe it wasn't accidental?  Thought cross your mind?
>
>Indeed there is a chance that the fall was not accidental.

Specially in this case

 I don not
>know. There is also the possibility that the person was desperate for a
>smoke (as seems to often be the case with XPT passengers!), and was
>deliberately holding the door open.

Sure that happens alot..


>
>On a trip from Sydney to Brisbane earlier this year, which was already
>running quite late, a group of passengers who had alighted for a
>cigarette ignored *repeated* requests to board the train, instead
>remaining on the platform. Eventually the train began moving off without
>them,

I think that is fair enuff..... There is a true story about NT 1 and a lady
smoker at Dungog... she got out walked around the island platform at Dungog
havin a smoke ... The PSS couldn't see her.... and the train left... short
time later a woman came to the PSS holding a baby  ..... no prizes for
gussing who the baby belonged to.... a quick bit of conferencing with
control.... and the baby was handed to the crew of a freight train... bunny
rugs bottles and all.... when they arrrived at Dungog they found a quite
distressed young woman who was very happy to see her baby again....


and it was amazing how quickly they managed to get onboard!

If they don't they get left behind

The
>passenger attendant had a few words to one of them just after departing,
>and the problem (people had been loathe to board at previous stations)
>was quickly rectified.

Usually they pay no heed and eventually the cops are called

Cheers
Jack