Re: Yet Another CityRail Stuffup

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

well thats shittyrail for you
Ronald BESDANSKY <ronbest@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> Yesterday (Friday 1999-10-22) decided to go to Douglas park by train
(silly
> idea!) to look at the final stages of the cleanup. Found the following:
>
> 1. Wynyard - no signs or announcements re buses between Campbelltown &
> Picton.
>
> 2. On the 1049h Wynyard - Campbelltown, normally the "sweeper" for the
1115h
> Endeavour Sydney Central - Moss vale: No announcement re buses.
>
> 3. Campbelltown - train arrived about 17 mins late at abt 1205h, due
1148h -
> no signs directing passengers to buses, one announcement which was
> meaningless to anyone not familiar with the station.
>
> 4.  Bus which should have substituted for Endeavour set already gone -
next
> in 1 hour! Asked staff doing bus dispatch why they didn't wait for arrival
> of advertised connecting train - "signal box didn't tell us it was running
> late"! They could have actively sought this info, surely, or just looked
to
> see whether it was in the platform - guess they're not paid enough/not
> intelligent enough to think of doing such a customer-friendly thing!
> Fortunately, after much verbal protest by self and others, a bus was
found.
> There were passengers for the Canberra XPL, amongst others.
>
> 5. Up bus ex Douglas Park replacing 1544h train arrived about 35 mins
late.
>
> Rgds
>
> Ron BESDANSKY
>
>