Re: Olympics journalists sample the joys of Sydney's train network

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>]

"Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
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> "Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> > As promised - from clari.sports.olympic

I am the messenger, not the author.

> > "AFP" <C-afp@clari.net> wrote in message
> > news:Qoly-trainsUR-j4_AS5@clari.net...
> > >
> > >    SYDNEY, Sept 5 (AFP) - Sydney's much maligned rail service
> > > failed again Tuesday, leaving 400 passengers -- mostly international
> > > journalists -- stranded at the showpiece Olympic Park station.
> > >    Railway officials blamed "high winds" for bringing down overhead
> > > lines on to the tracks, but were unable to say how long the problem
> > > would take to rectify.
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> A train lost a roof cover which caused the problem.
That explains a lot of the problems.

> > >    The new rail link to Homebush and the state-of-the-art Olympic
> > > Park station were opened last year as part of the new Olympic
> > > stadium complex.
>
> It was opened more than 2 years ago.

There have been three Easter Shows at Homebush, haven't there? So since at
least April 1998.

Dave