Re: Second rate Melbourne stations

[pcc@ocean.com.au (Les Brown)]

Chris Brownbill <cbrnbill@enternet.com.au> wrote in aus.rail:

>Jennifer Richmond wrote:
>
>> General Motors, was named after General Motors (The company) who has a big
>> manufacturing plant just next to the station. It is now of course Holden, but the
>> station name remains the same. General motors serves the factory only (Mon to
>> Fri) with V/Line and Bayside services stopping there at the start and ends of
>> shifts (About 0700 and 1500, I say about, because these are only approximate...).
>> I think that there are about 6 up and 5 down services stop there a day. For the
>> present government to have kept it, it must have a fairly high passenger
>> turnover, although I have never seen it in action. *mental note - go and see
>> General Motors in action before Bayside close it*
>> 
>
>NOT SO FAST!  Take a look on the Up side of General Motors station and you will
>see that Australia Post is in the final stages of construction of a massive mail
>sorting centre - right adjacent to the station.  This centre which will replace
>all but two of the other mail sorting centres in Melbourne and which is due to
>open at the start of July (ie only 2 months away) will have a staff of over
>1000, and would have to be a generator of some traffic.  In fact I wouldn't be
>surprised to see some additional trains tabled to stop there in the upcoming
>timetable to meet this need.

That will make things easy. Instead of totally renaming the station to
some deviant name like "Doveton", they can re-use half the old station
name and call it Post Master General. In fact, make it really cheap -
in keeping with the character of the station - just call it "General".
(Yeh, I know, it's just up from Officer)

Les Brown