Re: Looking on - with responsibility

[Mr Simpson <mdoyle@mail.usyd.edu.au>]

Neil Waller wrote:

> Hunslet wrote:
> >
> >
> > Perhaps ASR and the other operators could advertise a public phone
> > number in each State where rail incidents such as this could be
> > promptly advised.   Rail fans see many incidents which they find it
> > impossible to report - shifted loads, skidding wheels, etc. etc.
>
> I would concur - although without a mobile phone and at some distance from a
> public phone you can be at a disadvantage.
>
> I can remember watching an NR freight through Adelaide's Hawthorn station and
> hearing this squealing approaching then feeling the heat of a bearing running
> very hot from beside the track.
>
> And 45 wagons back in the train the crew had absolutely no hope of hearing it.
>
> The wagon needed urgent attention but who to ring?
> [..<cut>..]

also in agreement - suburban services also run into trouble now and again.i do
recall there used to be a graffiti hotline for SRA NSW but as i have not seen this
advertised
lately i wouldn't know if it still exists, nor if they would care about any other
defects

Homer