Re: 80s illawarra limited stops trains

["trendy rechauffé" <trendy_rechauffe@start.com.au>]

<eikkert@my-deja.com> wrote in message 8fjkah$lb2$1@nnrp1.deja.com">news:8fjkah$lb2$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
> I remember when I was quite young standing on platform 6 at Sydenham in
> peak hour seeing a suburban train whizz past heading south (I assume
> this would have been the train to cronulla that operated first stop
> penshurst), a VERY SHORT time - no more than two-three minutes later a
> goose whizzed past and I remember looking down the line and seeing both
> trains running parallel.
>
> Was this some sort of special working, normal occurance (illawarra
> trains switching onto the illawarra local at Sydenham) or am I just
> getting too old.
>

Yes you're right, in 1981, 2 Waterfall trains after 5pm skipped Sydenham
followed by 2 Cronulla trains skipping Sydenham. A Cronulla train, first
stop Penshurst at 6.24pm did stop at Sydenham.

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