Re: Sydney trackwork - long weekend

["Garry Hoddinett" <hoddos@netspace.net.au>]

WhaleOilBeefHooked wrote in message
> It is rather comprehensive, isn't it - I am actually amazed that SillyRail
have such a decent site - even the complaints about the slowness of the
timetables to load are not toally justified, as anyone who spends any amount
of time on the net can download the whole lot and then view them offline.
>
> All in all, a good site.
>
> (Egad, I am complementing SillyRail? Take me away and lock me up!)
>
> DaveP

>
I really don't think a casual rail user could reasonably be expected to down
load all CityRail timetables from the net and then view them later.  In the
situations where I have tried to use the web timetables a decision has to be
made fairly quickly as to whether one should catch a train or look at some
other form of transport.  In particular, the western (Penrith) line
timetable because it is so big takes a long time to view and scroll through
pages.  David Bromage made some good comments about why the CityRail
timetables were so slow, however I think he has censored his comment by
removing it from this newsgroup!  I good public information web site like
CityRail should be easy to navigate and quick to download information from.