Re: [NSW] Dapto - Kiama Electrification Progress

[Dave Proctor <david@sd3.mailbank.com>]

On Sun, 20 May 2001 00:15:47 -0400, signal engineer
<signal_engineer@MailAndNews.com> wrote:

>>Which raises the question of what happens to the direct services from
>>Dapto (or further south) to Pt Kembla after the line to Kiama is
>>electrified? Will they electrify the short section joining the Dapto and
>>Pt Kembla lines or will passengers have to change at Coniston?
>>
>>I suspect the latter!!!
>
>It's not part of this contract. But with the downsizing of BHP Steelworks 
>why 
>would they bother with this now. It should have been done when they 
>electrified the Coniston - Unanderra portion way back then.

Not really. A lot of the traffic came from further down the line, so
it made sense to operate a diesel service from Kiama/Nowra to Port
Kembla, which *should* connect with a Sydney train at Dapto, rather
than a diesel service to Dapto and then two connecting services from
there - one to Sydney, one to Port Kembla.

Dave