Re: Looking For Rare Train Timetable

[David Bromage <dbromage@omni.com.au>]

Garry Hoddinett wrote:
> 
> David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
> 37E6F566.9E7FAAEE@ozemail.com.au">news:37E6F566.9E7FAAEE@ozemail.com.au...
> > Try  http://www.cityrail.nsw.gov.au/timetables/westernline/western.htm
> >
> Have you ever tried to view these online timetables?  A couple of weeks ago
> I tried to view this very same timetable and I could have caught the train
> to Penrith and returned to the city in the time it took to view a few pages.
> Unfortunately this has not been an isolated experience in viewing CityRail
> timetables on the web - they take to olong to be of any practical use.

The problem isn't the timetables themselves, the HTML tables are about
as tidy as you're likely yo get.

The problems are

1) Shockingly slow NT server
2) Graphically intensive, to the point of graphics superimposing text in
the same font!
3) Dumb webmaster who won't listen

Cheers
David