Re: (SYD) A few questions

[Michael Hendy <spam.sucks@bigpond.com>]

Eddie Oliver wrote:

> Ted Gay wrote:
> 
>>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.
>>
> 
> True. But the Wynyard tram platforms were never USED as railway
> platforms.
> 
> However perhaps this can start a thread for the people on aus.rail who
> like compiling lists: where are there (or have there been)
> 
> (a) platforms on still-existing routes, which are no longer in use but
> which once were in use (example: the terminal platform at Chatswood)
> 
> (b) platforms which were built to a reasonable level of completion but
> were never used for trains (example: the middle platforms at St James,
> and the tram platforms at Wynyard)?
> 


Which category does the platform between Bell and Zig Zag come in to?