Re: Powerhouse Museum, Sydney

["Robert Lee" <robsl@ozemail.com.au>]

These colours go way back beyond the 1930s.  The working timetables issued
in the Eddy era had EXACTLY the same colours on their covers - red for the
North, green for the South, Blue for the Illawarra, and yellow for the West.

Oh, for the benefit of those not familiar with the history of theNSWR, the
Eddy era was 1889 to 1896.  That's a while back....

Nice to know some things don't change too much.

Quaider wrote in message <394a1e66@pink.one.net.au>...
>Do you know of any links to pictures of these older maps?
>
>"ROY HOWARTH" <rhowarth@ihug.com.au> wrote in message
>8id4h0$8ac$5@bugstomper.ihug.com.au">news:8id4h0$8ac$5@bugstomper.ihug.com.au...
>> The NSWGR began using colour-coded system maps for the suburban network
>> in the late-1930's. These were a copy of similar colour-coded maps used
>> on the London Underground and are very similar to the maps we see today.
>>
>> I'm not sure if colour-coding was employed on country routes however.
>> There may have been other reasons for the different colour signage.
>>
>> Roy H
>>
>> >
>> >(2) The grand old destination board from Sydney Terminal, pre-1982.
>> >According to an information near this restored icon, the destinations
and
>> >times displayed on the board are from an authentic 1937 timetable, and
>the
>> >board itself has been repainted and redecorated to reflect its 1930's
>> >appearance. Down the bottom of the board beneath the destinations, there
>are
>> >often various coloured boards showing the names of the trains -
"Riverina
>> >Express", "Through West Mail", "Brisbane Limited", etc. etc. These
>> >nameboards were coloured - red for the northern lines, green for the
>> >southern lines and yellow for the western lines - the exact same colours
>> >used on modern CityRail maps! Were these colour codes used back in the
>> >1930's?
>> >
>> >Thanks in advance,
>> >Bradley
>
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