Re: DOO In Sydney?

["Exnarc" <gwrly@netspace.net.au>]

C. Dewick <craigd@lios.apana.org.au> wrote in message
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> In <37ef14ee.0@pink.one.net.au> "John" <johnst@aics.net.au> writes:
>
> >> Not the guards as far as I can tell.  In my experience they ignore any
> >> problems reported to them by travelling passengers in my experience.
> >>
> >> I'm not fan of DOO but it is technically possible.  However, I'm also
> >> not a fan of having a guard if the only "service" that most guards
> >> seem to deliver to passengers is to close the doors.
>
> >Unfortunately, you have come across some dud Guards but be assured there
are
> >many Guards who are very good and very professional at what they do.
David
> >Johnson is an example of this.
>
> Well, speaking of dud guards (as a driver with CityRail I get to deal with
> more of them than the average passenger does), the guard I had on my train
> on Friday night could be losing his job this week.
>
> I was at the end of my shift around 8.40 pm on Friday night, and the last
> thing I had to do was stable 12 run (my 8 car S set) in the yard here at
> Waterfall. Only problem was, when I drove my train into the shunting neck
> and changed ends, there was no guard. I phoned up the office, and the DM
> checked around and found out that the guard who was supposed to still be
on
> the train with me to stable it had in fact given me a right-away bell at
the
> platform then got off the train!
>
> He'd jumped on the next train heading back to the city to go home!
>
That was standard practice for a lot of guards in Melbourne, they would do
it in full view of the public at Flinders Street Station.

Bob.

PS. Not all guards didn't do their job, but their was enough make it
obvious.