Re: IT'S ACADEMIC - EASY ONE! -AND ANOTHER NOT-SO-EASY

[arthur marsh <marsh@ties.itu.int>]

But the former AN owned Keswick terminal is entirely distinct from the
metropolitan Keswick station. How about Keswick interstate terminal?

On 12 Mar 1999, Roderick Smith wrote:

> The GSR station at Keswick may count for multiple renamings; alternatively
> it has never been named at all, and not one of its owners knew what it
> called its own station.
> AFAIK it was called ARPT (Adelaide Rail Passenger Terminal).
> 
> The name in documents didn't agree with the name on the station nameboard.
> 
> When faced with complete chaos, ignore the owner.
> 
> I have settled on Adelaide Keswick as comprehensible.
> 
> Sydney is almost as hopeless:
> For years interstaters tried to follow the logic that platforms 1-15 were
> Sydney Terminal; platforms 16-23 were Sydney Central.  As the function has
> changed, so has the naming.
> 
> AFAIK platforms 1-3 are Sydney Terminal; platforms 4-27? are Sydney
> Central.
> 
> But, I have photographs of platforms where the name on signs hanging from
> the verandah and the name on platform seats are in conflict.
> 
> Try and work out the name of the long distance station in Brisbane.
> 
> AFAIK the platforms are still Roma St.  The terminal building, built like
> 3D maze escape, is Brisbane Transit Centre.
> 
> Perth keeps zigzagging too.  AFAIK the sg station is Perth Terminal; is the
> inner city station with the high-tech additions Perth City, or just Perth?
> 
> -- 
> Regards
> Roderick Smith
> Rail News Victoria Editor
> 
> Krel  <krel4203@netconnect.com.au> wrote in article 
> > >Question: Which station (in Australia) has been renamed the most times
> > >(excluding adding and deleting hyphens and apostrophes and suchlike)?
> 
> 
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