Re: [NSW] East Hills line amplificaiton

["Chris Downs" <cvdowns@ozemail.com.au>]

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> > Are they putting extra terminating platforms at Padstow and Kingsgrove or
> > just pointwork to turn trains around?
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> Further to that, are they touching the stations at all during the
> improvement?

>From observation Kingsgrove's terminating road will be south of the station,
so a train from the city will arrive on platform 2, then run into the
terminating road before reversing and running back to platform 1 and then
continuing back towards the city.  Will the facility include a trailing
crossing arrangement like Bankstown's?

As for Padstow a total budget of $12m is a lot for a simple terminating road -
something that could be accommodated to the south of the station between road
overbridges with minimal earth works to widen the cutting.  $12m sounds like
good value (too cheap?) if they do a similar rebuild of the road overbridge at
Padstow station to those done at Kingsgrove etc., and provide a segregated
terminating platform akin to Lindfield.  Operationally this option is much
better, no checking that a terminating train is empty while blocking the
through lines.

Chris