Re: Country(link?) - try walking instead

[Rod Gayford <rjaygee@smartchat.net.au>]

Idiot!!!!!!

Cheers

RJG

Jack wrote:

> Hi Nobody...
>
> nobody wrote in message <38171724@pink.one.net.au>...
> >Recently we drove to Port Macquarie for holidays.  My son followed us up on
> >the XPT from Sydney to Wauchope, then countrylink bus to Port Macquarie on
> >the following Tuesday.  We booked the ticket for him a few weeks in
> advance.
>
> which service did he travel on and on what date?  Sounds like NT 1
>
> >
> >Anyway, the ticket arrived in the post and my son eventually caught his
> >train.  My wife and I waited and waited and waited and waited at the Port
> >Macquarie bus terminus for the bus that didnt arrive.  This was late at
> >night... of course.  The locals told us that the bus was "always late" and
> >half an hour to an hour late was the normal arrival time.  There wasn't
> even
> >a phone number in the bus shelter where we could call country link to find
> >out what happened to the train.  The bus was near to an hour late.
>
> You could always ring Taree station.... or Wauchope for that matter, they
> are both manned and the number is in the phone book... they would have
> provided u with the information u required..
>
> >
> >A week after we got home my wife had to go to the Port again.  Again the
> bus
> >was very late getting into Port Macquarie because the train was late
> getting
> >into Wauchope...
>
> again, what date and what service?
>
>  I'm not impressed.
>
> without knowing what actually happened, how can U be unimpressed..
>
>  On the way home, she tried to order
> >some scones with her morning tea but was told she couldn't have scones
> >unless she'd pre-ordered them - you see they had to be ordered well before
> >the train got to Wauchope because they had to cook them, so those who get
> on
> >at Wauchope have no hope of getting scones.  Why would anyone WANT to catch
> >a train anywhere when faced with this kind of treatment is what I don't
> >understand - unless there's no alternative.
>
> Well that is your perogative to use other means of travel.... But with the
> scones, unless they had run out which quite often happens particularly in
> the holiday season, they would ahve put a serve on for her if they had
> any...  If they had none and U still have a problem contact the private
> contractor, or Countrylink catering manager and ask why they send services
> out with not enuff stock on board...
>
> I think that if you had the information as to why the trains were late and
> why there were no scones available on the service, you may be a little less
> unimpressed... Countrylink does not intentionally run their services late,
> it has a lot to do with the lack of priority Countrylink Services are given
> by train control, and the preference shown to other operators, particularly
> on the North Coast..
>
> Cheers
> Jack
> Queensland: Perfect One day
> Beautiful the next
> And wet for the other 363 days of the year