Re: [Melb] New Hillside Timetable, interesting trains.

[Alan <Jherek@bigpond.com>]

The majority of staff in the train companies are ex government (PTC or
Hillside/Bayside)

Eddie Oliver wrote:

> Christopher_Martin GORDON wrote:
> >
> > Some interesting trains in the new timetable:
> > The 1604 arrival at FSS (from ELT) forms empty cars to FSS via City Circle
> > Loop (CCL) and then on arrival back at FSS forms 16:25 RWD train (which is
> > missing from the public timetable)
> >
> > I wonder if you could stay on this train for a nice ride around the CCL.
> >
> > 1657 arrival at MCD forms empty cars to CHL, then as a revenue serivce
> > from CHL to FSS (umm, another ride from MCD to CHL?)
> >
> > 1701 arrival at EPP forms empty cars to CHL, then as a revenue service
> > from CHL to FSS (again, another ride?)
> >
> > The two empty car trains from FSS to CHL and back to VPK have been
> > extended to HDB (still empty cars both ways).
>
> I would have hoped that Hillside, being hopefully a more
> customer-focused organisation than the Met, would have avoided the
> idiocy of empty car movements that could actually convey passengers.
> Does this imply that Hillside took on ex-Met staff and hasn't yet
> indoctrinated them with customer service and public relations
> principles?
>
> Eddie Oliver