Re: [NSW] Airport Link

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>]

"David Johnson" <trainman@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> Dave Proctor wrote:
>
> > "Michael Kurkowski" <mk@netstra.com.au> wrote in message
> > news:8F2BD193telstraNews@139.130.239.94...
> > > daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au (Dave Proctor) wrote in
> > > <fpcP4.1198$9a4.613532@news0.optus.net.au>:
> > >
> > > >> The April issue of Railway Digest reports that the Airport Link
> > > >> will open on the 17 th May, it may well do!
> > > >
> > > >Well, ummm, shut up about Digests accuracy, Dave.
> > >
> > > Please do.
> > >
> > > The digest states that the line is "scheduled" to open on the 17th of
May.
> >
> > And it has been 21 May since at least the start of this year, which is
when
> > the new timetables have been due to commence. You really think they
would
> > open a line on a Wednesday, with the timetables for that line (all lines
in
> > fact) not commencing until the following Sunday?
>
> It is entirely possible that the line could open on the Wednesday, with
all the
> politicians present, but have no regular scheduled services until the
following
> Sunday.

Possible, but was never going to happen. The official opening has been
scheduled for 21 May (Scully announced it around Christmas).

Dave