Re: Sydney Interurban Trains

["Andrew" <atailby@mpx.com.au>]

or the other idea it was a emergency stop botton at one stage but a lot of
these were taken away as kids used to like to push them
Matthew Geier <matthew@mail.usyd.edu.au> wrote in message
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> In article <B451D280.727%joel@abilitycorp.com.au>,
> Joel Cooper  <joel@abilitycorp.com.au> wrote:
> >For the last 8 years I haven't been able to work this out.
> >
> >I was sitting down the down stairs compartment of a Central Coast
Intercity
> >train and couldn't work out what the metal plate was on the wall at the
end
> >of the compartment. It doesn't seem to have a purpose. I wonder if it
used
> >to be a sign of some sort. It's about the size of a vertical brick.
>
>  Sounds like one of the {Non}Smoking signs back from the days when one car
was a smoking car
> on the Intercity trains.
>
>  When a train was amalgamated, they would change the sign over from
smoking to non smoking
> and subject the non smokers who eventually boarded to a carrage that
reeked of cigarette
> smoke.
>
>  One of the best things they ever did was ban smoking totally. Nothing was
worse than having
> to travel in a smoke ridden carrage. Changing a sign didnt magicly get the
smoke out of the
> seats or air-conditioning filters.
>
>