Invisible Trains

Delays.

I suppose I can't complain, considering how I was only 20 minutes late arriving home. I'm still not extremely sure of the circumstances going on around cityrail, but from what I gleaned whilst at the Interchange, waiting for the train to materialise from thin air, from listening to the Cityrail man speaking to a woman, and what Akira assumed, someone walked in front of a train at Lidcombe.

Of course, I didn't catch the beginning of what the Cityrail man said, I only heard him telling the woman about someone just 'walking' onto the tracks; I wasn't actually sure if he was talking about the event today or not.

So a few minutes ago, I decided to actually research this up, and there's no official statement yet, I suppose, but on railpage, it's been announced that there was an "earlier fatality at Lidcombe this afternoon". Which is pretty sad, I suppose.

I didn't think anything of it, whilst I was at Central. I just took the details of the delay, and you know...stored it.

Akira and I actually arrived at Central really early, because the buses were moving extraordinarily fast today from school. So it was such a confusion when we got upstairs to the Terminal, and saw NO TRAIN. D:

Checking the monitor, it still said Platform 8 so... we just kind of stood there with a heap of other people waiting for the train. Down the platform, there was a group of SBHS boys, and one of them was reaching out into the empty space, laughing, and saying to his friends, "look, the door's right here, I can feel it." [photo]


To which, Akira sceptically laughed and demonstrated someone thinking the train was there and just sauntering off the platform.

On a side note, I reached out and felt the heat of the sun and said 'look Akira, I can feel the train!' Later when the train actually arrived, it turned out I'd been prodding where the door would be.


Eventually the announcers managed to stop cutting their delay announcements in half, and told us that the Schofields train would be arriving in 3 minutes.

It moved really slowly, but it wasn't that bad. I've had worse.

But, my condolences today go to the family and relations of the person who has seemingly ended their own life, and for whatever reason it may have been, I wish him the best wherever they are now, whatever religion they might have been, and wherever that belief would have led them.

If he had a reason, then I have no right to accuse him of being selfish have I?

Oh well, I'm really sleepy, probably because I had a four hour nap just then, and I want to keep sleeping, but I decided to come and blog about this because it was something big in the train world of Sydney. I heard there are delays running up to about 40 minutes in either direction right now, and passengers are advised to disembark at Auburn or Flemington to complete their journey as citybound trains aren't stopping at Lidcombe.

Good thing I'm getting driven tomorrow morning (though i'd hate to say this, but I wish I could catch the train. I'm a very in-the-midst-of-it-all kind of person).

Train delays. No one wants them, but sometimes they're as inevitable as change. It's okay, I'm learning to drive soon! But then again, driving takes even longer.

Grimace.