Re: Line beyond......

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

Malcolm Purvis wrote:

> I was in Kiama today (taking advantage of the increased train frequency during
> the Olympics) and in the Pilot's Cottage Museum there is a copy of a timetable
> from 1900.  Comparing it with the Olympic timetable, today's trains are:
>
> - 10 minutes faster Kiama-Dapto
> - ~1 hour faster Kiama-Sydney
> - Vastly more frequent (3 trains a day in 1900)
>
> The time to Dapto surprised me.  Hasn't anything been done to that line in a
> century?

They put a colour light signal in at Dunmore...  :)

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