Re: Sydney 1969 rail map

["chris 'fufas' grace" <chris@transdata.co.nz>]

David Burns wrote:
> 
> Outstanding.
> 
> Especially like the exact distances and elevation of each station from Central - why isn't this
> sort of useful information on current maps (well at least in the timetables somewhere).
> 
> Perhaps metrification in the 1970s is where the problems started - are trains running late
> because the timetablers forgot to convert miles to kilometres ... :-)
> 
> Finally, the station called "Abattoirs" - was this a world first?! (Town Hall should be
> renamed...)
> 
> dB
> (No veal!)

I might have posted this before, but around 1982 I was in Sydney, and
in the window of the NSW Government Bookshop they had a plan of the
railway for sale. Much to my regret I did not buy one at the time and
have never been able to find one since.

This plan actually showed the track layouts on the system.

I later bought a different map from the shop underneath Central. This
was also a state government map but showed all lines including all
private sidings although not the track layouts. It was a geographic,
not a symbolic map.

Does anyone know what I am talking sbout? Is such a map still
available? (I presume the ARHS would have one somewhere)