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Re: GSR Intermediate stops

David Langley wrote in message <377CB0B8.26AF3CFC@ancc.com.au>...

>In 1981 when the new deal started, the Operations Branch abbreviation for
>Spencer Street was SSS - Spencer Street Station and Flinders Street became
FSS -
>Flinders Street Station. For reasons unknown but has a lot to do with the
fact
>that govt depts do not talk to each other, the computer booking system of
that
>era used MSS and MFS.

Also maybe to do with the fact that other railway systems used the system,
and MSS and MFS was fairly easy to remember for Melbourne Spencer St and
Melbourne Flinders St to someone in Adelaide or Perth.

DaveP