Re: Rail station at MCG/Tennis Centre?
Michael Walker (walker@hotkey.net.au)
Tue, 03 Feb 1998 23:07:46 +1100
Keith Holley wrote:
>
> On 1 Feb 1998 10:23:51 GMT, markbau1@aol.com (MarkBau1) wrote:
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> >There were plans to construct a station for the tennis center, the platforms
> >would have been right underneath the new footbridge. I remember seeing the
> >plans but I don't know why it was not built.
> >
> >Mark.
> >
> >
> >
> >THE ROCK is dead
> >Long live THE ROCK!
>
> Yer it is probably now a members car park.
> But the tennis centre is well serve by public transport (soon to be private
> transport) trams & two railway station within walking distance may be they
> (stations) are too far away for some tennis fans who do not like walking.
>
The last plan put out involved building platforms on the Sandringham
lines and none others. I think the idea may have been to do it alongside
the realignment but I am not sure. This would have been stuffed up with
the Sandringham trains using Platforms 8&9 as they no longer use the
lines proposed for the platform to reach Flinder Street.