Re: [MELB] City Loop issues

["Bryan Cullis" <spanky81@tpg.com.au>]

"OgO" <quentisl@leaves.qjc.cjb.net> wrote in message
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> In aus.rail, on 05 Apr 2001, Bryan Cullis announced:
>
> >Actually, I believe it is.  Over the past several weeks, I have been at
> >Melbourne Central and seen City Circle trains passing through.  The
> >monitors themselves had "CITY CIRCLE" on them and the stations listed
> >were "Flagstaff, Spencer Street and Flinders Street" on them.
>
> I don't know if there is a city circle train - I didn't think there was.
> I would have assumed that trains like you mention are simply ones coming
> in from wherever, going through the city loop on the way to Flinders
> Street, and then not taking passengers - you see them at Spencer street
> marked as 'Flinders St'.

These trains that you're talking about are actually marked as "Flinders
Street" at Melbourne Central as well, or marked as their continuing train
(i.e.. up Epping marked as down Lilydale on platforms).  The ones I've seen
are actual City Circle trains