Re: derailment and train management

[Bill <billguest@the.net.nz>]

Yeah, "nobody", whodoyathinkyouare? Just a bloody customer, that's all, and your
old man too........ You seem to think the railway should run for you, don't
you?????............I bet CityRail runs optimally for the purposes of the staff
----   so why should you wanna stuff things up! Economically? "Properly"??? What
are ya, some kind of beancounter????

nobody wrote:

> I'm not entering the debate about safeworking and all that, but couldnt
> Cityrail at least think economically and properly?
> I caught a train from Pennant Hills with the news ringing in my ear that
> there might be delays due to a derailment. On arrival at hornsby, where I
> changed to get to st Leonards, I found out the trains were being replaced by
> busses between Gordon and North Sydney.
>
> I question the logic of CityRail (Dad calls it Sh..y Snail and I'm beginning
> to see why) in this move. The RSA recently replaced the crossover at
> Chatswood so trains on the up line could travel over to the down line
> platform.
>
> Could CityRail have operated trains to Chatswood and Hornsby on a Point to
> Point operation, therefore requiring fewer busses on a shorter route @ less
> cost and time waste? On arrival at Chatswood a train could be directed into
> the down platform, then go back the other way. Excess trains could be held
> at Gordon or Lindfield or Hornsby. They have the infrastructure to do it -
> why did they congest traffic and increase delays by stopping trains at
> gordon?
>
> Can someone inform me as to whether this can be done?
>
> Brendan