Re: Airport Railway Questions

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

<glillic@msn.com.au> wrote in message
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> 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.

Cost? Going underground where they did probably reduced the amount of
tunnelling to get to where the other stations (Green Square, Mascot) are.

Dave