Re: Auzzie.rail catching up.

["Erk" <erk@erkV69.au.com>]

"Anita Lukaszyk" <neety@iprimus.com.au> wrote in message
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| maikha_l@hotmail.com wrote:
|
| > I wanted Otford so I can be just 'outside' the Surburban Network for my
| > train spotting.
|
| Why not go to Lapstone? Its just out of the SSA, and is a hell of a lot
| closer.
|
| > It is to my discovery that the next service arrivng at Otford going
| > back to Central (5:17pm arr.) will get to Central at 6:17pm which I'm
| > sure for some of us seems fairly late)
|
| No. Late is when you get the 00:48 train (OGTT) after a 12 hour shift.
| Or is that early? :-)
|
| > The services are the following:
| > Penrith: 7:20am or 7:42am Service to Katoomba
| > Katoomba: some service I can't seem to recall getting to Central at
| > 10:24am.
|
| I was up at Valley Heights the other week. If you go to the down end of
| the platform, you can get
| some good shots from there. The platform is quite narrow up there and
| has no white fence.
|
| > It is there that arrangements to go down south is too complicated so
| > I'll unfortunately have to sacrafise the South Coast Line for my day.
|
| I'd rather go down South than to the Mental Coast :-)
|
| > At Central I'll do a fair bit of 'peak-hour' spotting before getting on
| > the 4:45pm service back to my home in Penrith.
|
| That wouldn't be the Mt Victoria service that is a u stop at Penrith is
| it? :-)
|
| You can get the Brisbane XPT that leaves (IIRC) at 16:24
|
| > P.P.S. Anyone here know anything good I can do at Hawksburry River,
| > other than stand around for 2hrs? Gosford or Wyong?
|
| Go for a swim?
|
| Read Eric's post re: filling time in between trains.
|
| > P.P.P.S. Any rail pass on Cityrail that can get me further west and
| > north? A pass suggested by someone previously might be too short.
|
| A Purple TravelPass will let you go anywhere between Cowan, Richmond,
| Emu Plains, Macarthur and Otford (CREMO). Its the largest travel area a
| TravelPass can get you. I can't really tell you much more (although I'm
| supposed to know...)
|
| I would strongly suggest that you don't cram everything into one day:
|
| 1) You are on holidays
| 2) Some train is going to be running late (or another problem) and that
| will stuff up your connections for the rest of the day.
|
| --
| Anita Lukaszyk
| neety@iprimus.com.au
| http://www.ozemail.com.au/~neety

In response to this thread and the one neety spoke of above, I have added a
new page to my website.

http://www.erk.au.com/erktrans/trips/waiting.htm

It is a list of THINGS * I * HAVE DONE in between trains.--
--
Eric

URL: http://www.erk.au.com
Email: erkV69@erk.au.com (remove the V69)

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