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Re: [NSW] Toronto Station?
- Subject: Re: [NSW] Toronto Station?
- From: dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage)
- Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 07:29:57 GMT
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Ashley Wright (ajwright@ozemail.com.au) wrote:
> On Wed, 3 May 2000 17:04:51 +1000, "Hubert Lam" <hubert@imap4.com>
> wrote:
> >seen on the timetables page (CityRail)
> >http://timetables.cityrail.nsw.gov.au/newcastle/fassifern-toronto/index.htm:
> >
> >"V = Trip starts from Toronto Shops not Toronto Station."
> >
> >Is there a Toronto Station? (I've never been there before)
> >
> >If so have there been trains running there before?
> There would have been one years ago for the branch line, but today
> there isn't one which is served by a train. But I do believe there is
> an integrated bus/rail service connecting Toronto to Fassifern so
> maybe that is why the above comment, that it (the bus) leaves from the
> shops not the old station.
I'm not sure when the line closed, but there was still a regular railcar
service into the 70s.
Cheers
David