Re: Airport Railway Questions

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

"Neil O'Connor" <noc@nospam.acslink.net.au> wrote in message
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> Just read the Railway Digest article about the Sydney Airport Railway
> construction. I have two questions:
>
> 1). If during the construction of the ESR, central platforms 26/27 were
> built intended for a future Airport railway link, why were they not used
> instead of the current above ground option (platforms 20/21) at Central?

Probably because the connection into the rest of the network would have had
to have been underground, which would have raised the costs enormously, as
well as causing disruption during the construction phase.

Dave