Re: [NSW] Toronto Station?

["Chris Stratton" <stratton.chris.cp@nospam.bhp.com.au>]

"David Bromage" <dbromage@fang.omni.com.au> wrote in message
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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

I last photographed the 620s at Toronto in March 1990. IIRC the line closed
sometime later that year.
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Regards,
Chris Stratton
Wollongong, NSW, Australia
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