Train journeys in the times of covid

Since the coronavirus lockdowns started in New South Wales months ago, these are some of the strategies Sydney Trains have implemented to maintain covid safety.

The main recommendation to combat covid is to wear a face mask.

Other posters make further recommendations.

These posters reassure passengers that Sydney Trains staff are doing their utmost to ensure passengers and trains are covid safe.

At Central station in the city, staff come on trains and wipe down poles and seat handles, leaving behind a strong ammonia smell.

Stand here stickers recommend where to stand when queuing to buy tickets or to top-up Opal cards.

Before heading to the platform, passengers can take further steps to be covid safe by sanitising their hands curtesy of the no-touch hand-sanitiser dispensers stationed at stations entrances.

Signs on station platforms provide further recommendations about covid safety.

On the platform, announcements advise passengers to sit or stand only on green dots when on a train. If there aren’t enough green dots, passengers are advised to wait for the next train.

Posters recommend that passengers check the capacity of train carriages before boarding.

This is the physical distance capacity of one train carriage.

The mask message is repeated inside the train, posted on train doors.

Covid safe train seats are designated by a white tick on a green circle.

Green Stand here stickers in train vestibules also indicate covid safe spots when alighting from trains.

This Sit here sticker managed to escape from its train seat.