Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull cops spray over new train timetables
PRIME Minister Malcolm Turnbull has copped the full brunt of an elderly Central Coast commuter’s fury over train timetable changes.
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MALCOLM Turnbull has copped the full brunt of an elderly Central Coast commuter’s fury over train timetable changes.
The Prime Minister had travelled to Gosford by train this morning for a tour of several local facilities and had stopped briefly at the ticket barriers to chat with station staff.
Good hearted banter quickly went south when the grey-haired woman heard his comment to staff about “the new timetables going down well”.
“If you want to know, it’s plain shit,” the commuter said as she came up to the group.
The surprised PM thought he had misheard and asked “what’s that?”.
The rail timetable is a State Government responsibility, but the clearly infuriated commuter repeated her assessment of the unsatisfactory nature of the new timetable.
“It’s shit — the new timetable,” she said before sweeping off.
The PM kept his cool and deflected the comments back to the rail staff as “feedback”.
An extra stop was added to four Central Coast peak hour train services under new timetabling which started on November 26.
The changes will affect one morning train from Gosford to Sydney and three Central to Newcastle bound trains in the afternoon between.
Affected trains are : 6:45am – Gosford to Central, 16:58pm – Central to Gosford, 17:28pm – Central to Gosford; 17:58pm – Central to Gosford.
Mr Turnbull was on the Central Coast for a factory tour of Bambi Enterprises which has landed a supply agreement with Chinese online retail giant JD.com. The deal would mean more jobs for the region.
Mr Turnbull also took a tour of the new ATO building in Georgiana Terrace which is due to open soon.
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