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My name is Max and I started my railway career as a Station Assistant in Strathfield. In 1964 you could still see the steam trains and the old suburban red rattlers coming and going.
I remember getting my first pay from the pay clerk. It was in cash and by the time I paid for a TV, record player and board I still had a couple of Pounds to spend at the pub.
As a young bloke I could not help to feel a sense of pride and belonging as a Railway employee. The Unions were strong and rail management had some honor about them. A job came up as a conductor on the passenger trains. In those days the passenger trains went everywhere. I loved working on the rail motors because you were always home at night. I met my beautiful wife Polly on the trains, we got married in July 1970. Our son Bob was born on the 24th April 1971.
Work on the railways was great until rail management decided to Multi-skill everyone. The old passenger trains were disappearing, the rail motors gone and a new train called the XPT was coming into service.
The old days of having a drink with your workmates were disappearing too. As State Rail was becoming a thing of the past, Countrylink was born and promised to be much more than the old N.S.W.G.R or N.S.W.T.D.
The old Railway Commissioners retired and new managers took their place. The new managers had no railway experience, they came from private enterprise.
John Howard took the power away from the Unions and when this happened, management had a field day.
I still have many good friends that work for Countrylink. From Lee Street to Central Station they all tell me the same thing: "that Countrylink management is a disgrace". They are incompetent, mean, corrupt, unable to be truthful and could not care about the personnel that they employ.
My son and I have decided to create this web site in order to bring these issues into the open. We will be traveling the rails and listen to staff members of Countrylink. We will investigate discussions of management on various issues.
The most important thing is that you will be able to make comments on this web site about life with Countrylink and know that your identity and comments
will be completely untraceable.
We hope that this web site will force Countrylink management to change their ways. That the public be outraged by the treatment of employees by management.
We hope that you will enjoy this service and take full advantage of it. We look forward to hearing from you.
Please, please, write your comments and they will be listed below in the Comments section (soon), as time goes on we need more and more of your comments to prove that the system is as I say it is.
WWW.countrylink.biz
I remember getting my first pay from the pay clerk. It was in cash and by the time I paid for a TV, record player and board I still had a couple of Pounds to spend at the pub.
As a young bloke I could not help to feel a sense of pride and belonging as a Railway employee. The Unions were strong and rail management had some honor about them. A job came up as a conductor on the passenger trains. In those days the passenger trains went everywhere. I loved working on the rail motors because you were always home at night. I met my beautiful wife Polly on the trains, we got married in July 1970. Our son Bob was born on the 24th April 1971.
Work on the railways was great until rail management decided to Multi-skill everyone. The old passenger trains were disappearing, the rail motors gone and a new train called the XPT was coming into service.
The old days of having a drink with your workmates were disappearing too. As State Rail was becoming a thing of the past, Countrylink was born and promised to be much more than the old N.S.W.G.R or N.S.W.T.D.
The old Railway Commissioners retired and new managers took their place. The new managers had no railway experience, they came from private enterprise.
John Howard took the power away from the Unions and when this happened, management had a field day.
I still have many good friends that work for Countrylink. From Lee Street to Central Station they all tell me the same thing: "that Countrylink management is a disgrace". They are incompetent, mean, corrupt, unable to be truthful and could not care about the personnel that they employ.
My son and I have decided to create this web site in order to bring these issues into the open. We will be traveling the rails and listen to staff members of Countrylink. We will investigate discussions of management on various issues.
The most important thing is that you will be able to make comments on this web site about life with Countrylink and know that your identity and comments
will be completely untraceable.
We hope that this web site will force Countrylink management to change their ways. That the public be outraged by the treatment of employees by management.
We hope that you will enjoy this service and take full advantage of it. We look forward to hearing from you.
Please, please, write your comments and they will be listed below in the Comments section (soon), as time goes on we need more and more of your comments to prove that the system is as I say it is.
WWW.countrylink.biz