Ursula Heger
August 27, 2009 12:43pm
HUNDREDS of Pink fans, including young teenagers, were "kicked out" on to city streets last night as the concert finished too late for train services.
Yesterday angry Pink fans accused Queensland Rail of putting passengers at risk after they were told to leave Central Station because there were no connecting services to take the commuters home. A Pink fan told Tthe Courier-Mail today she had been told to leave Central Station because they had arrived too late for final connecting services to Loganlea.
"The Pink concert did not end until about 11:30 and we got to Boondall, paid a full fair to Loganlea station - with 1000 other train commuting passengers that went to pink,'' she said. "When we got to Central we got off the train to transfer onto a Gold Coast line but instead we were met by QR staff and security requesting us to leave the station as there would not be any other trains until 4am in the morning.'' The fan said a several groups of teenagers had become upset after being told to leave the station. "There was one group where the girls were bawling there eyes out because they had no one to pick them up because they were heading to the same destination as I was - Loganlea train station,'' she said. The fan said she had been able to catch a taxi home, but was out of pocket nearly $70 despite paying for a return train ticket. Timetabling showed passengers travelling services to Ipswich and Caboolture would have been able to catch a connecting train, but no other lines reached the last connecting services. A TransLink spokesman said both QR and TransLink would fully investigate the matter.
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