Re: Riversdale train (was Re: Connex timetable)

[Chris Gordon <cmgord@VICSIG.alphalink.com.au>]

> First thing is that it was run as a 3-car set!  (Where's the other half?)
> Desto-roll displayed Camberwell, but all PIDs displayed Riversdale stopping all
> stations.  Driver announced Riversdale all stations.  Mediocre patronage - about
> 16 off and 1 on at Auburn, lots off at Camberwell and a few on, about 16 off at
> Riversdale.  Of those 16, about 4 waited around at Riversdale presumably for the
> following Alamein train to take them further down the line - mumbling 'changed
> timetable' under their breaths.  Would be better if desto-roll was blank as is
> often the case.  Isn't Riversdale on the rolls?  Was Riversdale ever a terminus
> in the days of the Deepdene Dasher - or was it always East Camberwell?

Until some interlocking alterations in 1997 for the Camberwell Sidings,
you could not terminate a train at Riversdale.


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