Re: Indian Pacific hits freight train

[telljb@OZozemail.com.au (< Tell >)]

casey-joe <berlina@bigpond.com> wrote:

Sounds like you have a problem pal.!

----Terry Burton
Alice Springs NT


> How long has this ARTC been running National Main Lines 
> now? It feels like a lifetime to me.
> If the way they act at my workplace is an example of the 
> abilities and type of person they use to be Train 
> Controllers, all I can say is I am amazed that any trains 
> get to Perth at all, much less return!
> Local Crews and Train Movements have almost come to a stand,
> as these bigheaded, gutless arseholes, delay and refuse us 
> access to our own tracks, for some Interstate Train that 
> invariably arrives many minutes past the due times.Our own 
> train Controllers allowed a shunt with 5 mins extra 
> time.These arseholes want our 30 min shunt time plus 
> another 30 mins.Our shifts are long enough without this 
> crap. I would hate to be influenced by them for thirty 
> hours on a train to Perth, A lot of Crew Fatigue can be 
> contributed to lousy opperations.
>  They refuse to answer their Radios, and sit over there in 
> Adelaide, probably wanking themselves off in their own self 
> importance! Yes legends in their own little minds!
> Bet you that we will now have a big cover up..Bet you a 
> lousy Train Controller scurries back into his rats nest. 
> Arseholes.
> 
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