The railway staff have been loyal for Trainlink for over three decades, delivering service in supporting the local community and providing information to visitors to the area.

The loss of their jobs brings an enormous amount of stress to their families and puts the loyal staff onto the garbage dump.

Staff are on stations to assist the travelling public, the elderly and disabled passengers, and to help purchase their regional and coach tickets with face to face service, as most elderly and disabled are unable to use the internet or don't have access to it.

If passengers become sick or injured, station staff can call emergency services.

All Trainlink management want is to cut services to inconvenience the travelling public. By forcing them to use the internet that they are unfamiliar with, will naturally turn them to other forms of transport and thus you get low patronage on trains. And then Trainlink management what to cut train services.

Deputy Premier Paul Toole and local member Stephen Bromhead have a duty to support regional communities and protect jobs.

Trainlink management, by "white anting" jobs and services, pat themselves on the back and say "whay a good job we have done and we deserve a payrise."

And guess what? In August the Sydney Morning Herald reported that 34 senior executives at Sydney Trains had received massive pay increases, as frontline workers work through a global pandemic.

The loss of jobs at Taree, I suppose, would help pay for a small percentage of the massive pay increases of these 34 executives.

So where is the cost saving to the taxpayer?