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Re: Suburban densities and rail service (was Re: Putting light rail in subway)
- Subject: Re: Suburban densities and rail service (was Re: Putting light rail in subway)
- From: Deeg <galtfd@att.net>
- Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 00:07:18 GMT
- Newsgroups: misc.transport.urban-transit,alt.planning.urban,aus.rail
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- Xref: bclass.spectrum.com.au aus.rail:6782
>You have your chronology all wrong. The through running came first, sometime
>around 1880.
>
I'm having a little trouble sorting out who said what here, but
through service from Sydney to Melbourne came first in 1962. No doubt
it dates me, but I can very well remember changing trains at Albury.
Through service to Brisbane: this surely wouldn't have happened as
early as it did had it not been a relatively short extension of NSW
railways to South Brisbane.
Plenty of people still have enough of their wits to remember when a
trip from Rockhampton to Perth required break of gauge at Brisbane,
Albury, Port Pirie and Kalgoorlie.
Don Galt