Re: [NSW] Pippita

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>]

"C. Dewick" <craigd@lios.apana.org.au> wrote in message
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> "Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au> writes:
>
> >"Hubert Lam" <hubert@imap4.com> wrote in message
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> >> A few questions about this little known station on the access line to
> >Olympic Park
> >>
> >> 1. What was this station used for?
>
> >It was the end of electrification for the Abbattoirs branch. I believe it
> >was used by workers at some companies near where the line crossed
Parramatta
> >Road.
>
> The overhead wiring went all the way around Saleyards loop (on the
northern
> side of the freeway behind the Woodmasons Coldstores site).

But it did not go to the Abbottoirs branch, which was served by passenger
trains.

Dave