Re: Airport Railway Questions

[<glillic@msn.com.au>]

"Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> "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
>
>

Yes, but why on earth did they go under George Street Redfern and avoid the
already half completed Redfern station platforms and dive under the
Illawarra at Wells Street? Pax going from East Hills line to Main Suburban
stations would not have had to travel to Central to change. There must be
some logical reason  for the change from the original plans in the 50s.


Geoff Lillico