Re: 80s illawarra limited stops trains

[David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>]

eikkert@my-deja.com wrote:

> 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.

Getting too old.  You probably saw a down East Hills train paralleling the
coastie.


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