Re: NSW CityRail upgrading query

["David Bennetts" <davibenn@pcug.org.au>]

Bill McNiven <wmcniven@gunzel.ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> Paul Jones wrote in message ...
> >I think it was 25-30 mins longer. the tranis go past enfield yard and
then
> >join onto the bankstown line somewhere. it is quite interresting.
> >Anita Lukaszyk wrote in message
> >> For the Western/Blue Mountains Line it says services will be diverted
via
> >> the freight lines. Does anyone know which lines? I know of lines at
> >Enfield,
>
>
> > Passenger diversions to the Goods Line passing under the Main at
Lewisham
> are probably a thing of the past since the line terminates at Rozelle.
> During the Sydney resignalling in 1979, diesel-hauled Wollongong / Nowra
> trains actually ran Meeks Road - Wardell Road - Balmain Road - Darling
> Harbour - Sydney for one weekend.  I think that was the first and last
> passenger diversion to this line.
>
> Rgds
>
> Bill
>
It would be interesting to see trains crossing George Street and terminating
in the Railway Colonnade.  They could get a tram or two to push them up the
hill if they stalled on the steep grade.

regards

David Bennetts
Canberra