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Re: Sydney intercity trains

To: ausrail@railpage.org.au
Subject: Re: Sydney intercity trains
From: David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 21:19:13 +1100
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Albert Alcoceba wrote:

> An intercity train arrived at Strathfield on the Down Local at 12:45pm on
> Sunday where it set down it's passengers and departed as empty cars.
>

Probably the 12:26 arrival at Central from Newcastle.  It was supposed to go to Eveleigh, but could easily have been
transposed for Flemington Car sheds.

> They certainly weren't advertised to the public as doing that anywhere...
> Both at
> Sutherland and Hurstville, up trains were advertised as stopping at
> Hurstville and Central only with a mention over the Public Address sytem
> that the trains would arrive at the underground platforms at Central.
> The "Trackwork" flyers put out by Cityrail similarly stated the trains
> would start and terminate at platforms 24/25 at Central with no mention of
> Town Hall or Martin Place.

Well, they are certainly timetabled to stop there on the STN.

BTW - It is all happening again this weekend.

--
David Johnson
CityRail Guard
trainman@ozemail.com.au
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~trainman/

References:
- Re: Sydney intercity trains
  - From: David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>
- Re: Sydney intercity trains
  - From: alberta@zip.com.au (Albert Alcoceba)

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