Sydney Redditors Have Cracked The Case On The City’s Multitude Of Missing Train Seat Handles

A group of Sydneysiders on the r/Sydney Reddit page have answered the question to one of the city’s greatest mysteries: where do the little handles on our train seats go sometimes? If you’ve ever caught a train in the city of Sydney (after probably enduring a fucktonne of delays

Where do the handles go. Some sort of eshay trophy? from sydney

Ocean’s Eleven-style

“Can confirm: worked in train maintenance and cut many of these handles off,” they wrote.

“Previously we just taped them if they weren’t too bad but it was decided that no trains were allowed to leave Auburn with tape, so they all had to be cut.

“Part of it was also a supply chain issue as they were made in China. They eventually sourced a local supplier and slowly but surely they are fixing them across the fleet.”

“The yellow part seems to deteriorate, goes brittle, breaks and they removed the sharp plastic bits,” wrote a third individual.

“Never known them to be cut. From what I’ve heard they couldn’t get the replacement parts due to covid shortage. Source: crew.”

It’s a shame to realise the eshays aren’t galivanting from train to train to see who can collect the most seat handles. I can already see the Daily Mail headline that would’ve come from it and it would have been GLORIOUS to make fun of.

Alas, I’ll persist with the less exciting truth that cleaning chemicals are wrecking our lovely handles.

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