Re: Passenger Trains on Wharves

["James C" <jamesccj@optusnet.com.au>]

Those small toy trains taking children around Darling Harbour shops to
Aquarium ferry terminal counts????  :-)

Cheers
James



Barry Campbell <campblbm@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> John Dennis wrote in message
> <0aa5b49b.a5959ae2@usw-ex0101-005.remarq.com>...
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> >But did passenger trains meet boats on the jetty?  (I don't
> >know the answer).
> >
> >If the thread is opened up to include all tracks on jetties and
> >wharves then I can add Port Lincoln and Thevenard on the Eyre
> >Peninsula.
> >
> And also such unlikely places as Menindee, Lismore and  Grafton in NSW.
And
> probably what I said for Brisbane applied to these places and most others.
> The boat came in and you got off and a train came along when it was ready
> and you got on and vice versa. Things were a lot less rushed outside
> Melbourne, not to mention climatically challenged.
>
> In Sydney, of course, the main passenger shipping terminal was at Circular
> Quay and this was not served by train. I have an old Railway Digest of
> 1960's or 70's vintage showing a special train meeting a ship at one of
the
> few passenger wharves in Sydney equipped with rails (Pyrmont? Darling
> Harbour? No 13). Unfortunately I can't remember what the occasion was.
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> Barry Campbell
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