Empty Trains

Saturday, 27 September 2008 in The Sydney Grind, Urban affairs by Enoch Lau | 3 comments

A while back, CityRail started having these Empty Trains. I can’t for the life of me work out why anyone would choose such a stupid name. Does it mean that there’s no one inside? Does it mean it doesn’t go anywhere afterwards, as in, it’s terminating? (If so, what’s wrong with the word terminating?) I suppose it’s better than a (null) train.

The real WTF in the picture, though, is how a platform 23 service ended up on the Illawarra Line screen.

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  1. Dan’s avatar

    Dan on Saturday, 27 September 2008 at 8:09 PM

    Poor child. Trying to attribute logic to CityRail?

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  2. Tommy Chen’s avatar

    Tommy Chen on Sunday, 28 September 2008 at 10:19 AM

    What *is* an empty train???

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  3. Dazza’s avatar

    Dazza on Monday, 29 September 2008 at 7:42 PM

    Could be a number of things:
    - Used for driver training
    - Undergoing testing
    - Finished a run and heading back to the sheds. Or travelling somewhere to begin a run.
    - Altered due to trackwork, which could be why it showed Platform 23

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