Re: Australian rail network notation

["Greg Young" <greggy@acay.com.au>]

David Proctor <daproc@bigfoot.com> wrote in article
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> Albert Alcoceba <alberta@zip.com.au> wrote in article
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> > Just to confuse the issue... why are there are set of tracks in Sydney
> Yard
> > referred to as up/down Bankstown?
Because in the old days there were no such Illawarra tracks and the name
was given to the destination that trains were headed. 
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> And just to steer this thread into another totally spurious direction,
the
> lines between Westmead and St Marys are named Up Main, Up Suburban, Down
> Suburban, Down Main - yet most of the fast trains travel on the inner two
> tracks, the suburban lines. Can anyone throw any light on how this came
to
> be.
The names they carry refers to what they were when they were introduced.
Remember double track eastward used to commence at Westmead
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> Regards
> 
> David Proctor
> daproc@bigfoot.com
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Cheers
Greg Young