Re: Punchbowl depot......recent changes

["Alan Luchetti" <luchettii@hotmail.com>]

Matthew Geier <matthew@mail.usyd.edu.au> wrote ...
> John Koulouris <yianno@ozemail.com.au> wrote:

> >The depot has been knocked down.....is anyone aware as to why ?

>  Mercer Report. CityRail has to many depots. Close one.
>
>  Punchbowl depot had only just been upgraded to properly allow the
> servicing of double deck cars when it was closed.
>
>  With in hours the wires were cut down and the area fenced off. The
> next available track possession saw the points ripped out.


> > Will it
> >reopen ? Is it going to be sold off ?

>  Considering the haste with which the rail connections to the site were
> cut, I rather doubt it. It would have made a pretty good site for an
Electric
> train museum I think.
>  The rapid destruction of the infrastucture would have killed that idea.
>
>
>  I would imagine pending decontamination of the site, it will become a
> hi-rise residental area. It is close to Bankstown Square, and Punchbowl
> railway station. Not that any one would use the railway of course. :-)

A great place to start a tunnel to Hurstville via Roselands
and Beverley Hills.  After all, they say Parramatta is meant
to become Sydney's second hub.