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Re: Camden Trams




"Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
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> "Frank Eden"
> > "Frank Eden"
> > > "Tezza"
> > >There is still a Driver at Delec who used to drive on the Camden Line.
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> > He must be close to retirement then!
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> Pretty much, though there's no retiring age now. There's a Driver at Delec
in
> his 70's.

Should have been an inspector by now....
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> > The Camden station remnants are incorporated today into the Holden New
Car
> > Sales business who use a wooden bogie passenger car as a sales
promotion.
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> The Camden Line video showed a nursery there, but that was 1989.

That is correct but the nursery has gone and replaced by the Car Sales
outfit.
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> > > > > And what about Menangle Park Racecourse with the special trains?
> > > >
> > > > I wondered about that platform. How long ago was that?
> >
> > There were still race specials to Menangle trots running in 1951.
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> No wonder I don't remember it.

Then how about the single line branch to Prospect Quarry from both
Wentworthville (or Toongabbie?) and Fairfield?
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