Re: It's Academic

[stang@iweb.net.au (Aidan Stanger)]

Chris Brownbill <cbrnbill@enternet.com.au> wrote:

> jdennis@acslink.net.au wrote:
> > 
> > > > > Question 5:  What do the following passenger stations have in common?
> > > > >                 Adelaide Terminal
> > > > >                 Currambine
> > > > >                 Robina
> > > > >                 Olympic Park
> > > > >                 Merinda Park
> > > >
> > > > Not too sure (all located adjacent to a park??)
> > > >
> > >
> > > No.
> > 
> > These are all newish stations.  Are they stations which are not actually
> > located where anybody lives within walking distance?  Only located where
> > they are for reasons of operation?  Something like what those in Britain
> > would call "Parkway" stations?
> > 
> 
> Well that's pretty close.  I believe that they are the most recently
> opened NEW passenger stations in each State.  Adelaide terminal means
> Keswick - I can't think of a newer passenger station in SA and given
> that it opened in the early 1980s that is a sad state of affairs.

Agreed, but whether it is or not depends on what you define as a new
passenger station. I think Grange is slightly newer, but the new station
is just across the road from the old one.

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