Re: New NSW Timetable Site

[Hubert Lam <hubert@imap4.com>]

Canberra XPT?

How much quicker does it get to Canberra, or did it take just the same
time as today's Xploders?

In article <QiQK5.101988$bI6.3744277@news1.giganews.com>,
  "Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> "Samuel Eades" <seades@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
> EoFK5.2764$Tq6.27946@news-server.bigpond.net.au">news:EoFK5.2764$Tq6.27946@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
>
> > The 1980s country area map is interesting: Apart from the loss of
the
> > Queenbeeyan - Cooma and Armidale - Tenterfeild, everything else
still
> seems
> > intact today, whereas Victoria has lost: Ballarat - Mildura,
Ballarat -
> > Dimboola, Sale - Bairnsdale, Cranbourne - Leongatha and Shepparton -
> Cobram
> > since the early 1990s!
>
> The services have changed signifigantly though - at one stage, the
North
> Coast (as an example) had the following trains: N25 Grafton (0740), N9
> Kempsey XPT (1742), N5 Murwillumbah (1800), N1 Brisbane (1830), N3
> Murwillumbah (1940), N13 Grafton (2040) - now all it has is three
XPT's, one
> each to Brisbane, Murwillumbah and Grafton.
>
> Also, it wasn't until the eighties that trains stopped running to
places
> like Griffith (via Temora), Tumut, Cowra (both ways), Mudgee, Barraba
and
> Inverell. I would date that map as lmid-eighties, as it still
mentions the
> Southern Aurora and SoP, as well as two trains to Murwillumbah and the
> Canberra XPT.
>
> Dave
>
>

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