Re: (SYD) A few questions

["Ted Gay" <tedgay@bigpond.com>]

"Eddie Oliver" <eoliver@efs.mq.edu.au> wrote in message
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> Perhaps people are playing games with the meaning of the word "are", but
> people who say there "are" 6 platforms at Wynyard are scarcely answering
> the original query. There were only ever 4 rail platforms at Wynyard;
> the other two were tram platforms which of course have long since ceased
> to exist.

But platforms Nos 1 & 2 at Wynyard and Milson's Point were built as railway
platforms, for the the railway to Manly and the Northern Beaches.  The plans
had  all Northside tram services terminating at North Sydney.  All passenger
were to transfer to trains.

The plans for the services were changed.  Ramps the length of the platforms
were built to a height which brought the steps and footboards of the trams
to approximately platform level.  It was fascinating to watch trams arriving
at Milson's Point, if the driver did not back off the tram near leapt up the
change of level.  At Wynyard there was only a paling fence separating the
trams from the trains.  For further details see 'North of the Harbour' by L.
A. Clark  1976 ARHS NSW Division.

Ted

>
> Also the two centre platforms at St James were never used for trains, so
> there have only ever been two functional platforms there.