Re: trial CityRail signage and info systems

[ROY HOWARTH <rhowarth@tig.com.au>]

A good one I heard some time ago at Central Plat.18 went "First Redfern, 
then Kingswood AND ALL STATIONS TO PENRITH, then all stations to 
Springwood!!!"

Considering Penrith is the nxt station after Kingswood, Is the DVA aware 
of "phantom" stations we mere mortals don't know about??

Roy H

alberta@zip.com.au (Albert Alcoceba) wrote:
>On Thu, 22 Oct 1998 02:26:41 GMT, jdennis@acslink.net.au wrote:
>
>>And in a corresponding query, why in Sydney do they make announcements such
>>as the one I heard at North Sydney, in a Hornsby via Strathfield train.  This
>>announcement went through "Milsons Point, Wynyard, Town Hall, Central,
>>Redfern, then Burwood, Strathfield", then the next half a dozen station to
>>somewhere north of Strathfield, and finished with "and all stations to
>>Hornsby".  Why not say "all stations to Hornsby" after Strathfield and skip
>>the half-dozen names mentioned? --
>
>Because many passengers don't know all the stations on a line so
>sometimes the most common destinations are stated.
>
>The real stupid one is at Sutherland for Cronulla trains, where the
>DVA says:  First stop Kirrawee, then all stations to Woolooware, then
>Cronulla"  where Cronulla is the station immediately following
>Woolooware.
>
>
>Albert Alcoceba
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