Re: Campbelltown

["David Proctor" <daproc@bigfoot.com>]

Albert Alcoceba <alberta@zip.com.au> wrote in article
<6801rg$8ge$1@the-fly.zip.com.au>...
> In the message about  Campbelltown, from TRAINMAN@OZEMAIL.COM.AU to ALL!,
TRAINMAN@OZEMAIL.COM.AU said:"
> 
> TT> >
> TT> > >I've noticed that the dock platform at Campbelltown has been
re-instated.  Does this mean
> TT> > >that they are going to power operate the points and run Endeavours
from there?
> TT> >
> TT> >  I see suburban electric trains parked in the dock road on the down
side
> TT> > all the time. Or was there another dock road?
> 
> TT> Sparks are stored there overnight, but during the day, it is
available to be used by other
> TT> services.
> 
> Down Southern Highlands services would be better off departing from the
> dock... but up services should terminate on Platform 1 or 2 to avoid
people
> continuing on to Sydney having to cross from one platform to another over
> the overhead bridge.  It is annoying enough that most Southern Highland
> services run to and from Campbelltown.  When coming home from a day in
the
> Southern Highlands the last thing you feel like doing is being dumped at
> Campbelltown late at night with 25 minutes to wait before the next City
> train.

Why can't they finish the back platform at Macarthur, and up passengers
caould transfer there? Or better still, why don't they build a few more
Endeavours, and make all Southern Highlands services through trains to
Sydney?

> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Albert.
> 
> 
>  * RM 1.31  * Albert! alberta@zip.com.au http://www.zip.com.au/~alberta/
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