Re: Saturday in Sydney

[David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>]

Bob Gioia wrote:

> The return working to Thirlmere was SL 89. The locomotives for SL82/SL89
> were 4490 and 4520
>
> and 3801 was used on NS83/NS86. The clue here is that
> SL is a southern loco hauled train whereas NS is a
>
> a northern steam hauled
> train. The use of Flemmo as a changeover point was to avoid going into
> Central and missing the
>
> trackwork.

And the fact that the train could not use the shore because it was steam hauled,
and could not go directly to Central due to Nth Strathfield to Strathfield being
closed.

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David Johnson
CityRail Guard
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