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Re: IT'S ACADEMIC - EASY ONE! -AND ANOTHER NOT-SO-EASY
- Subject: Re: IT'S ACADEMIC - EASY ONE! -AND ANOTHER NOT-SO-EASY
- From: alberta@zip.com.au (Albert Alcoceba)
- Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 23:36:26 GMT
- Newsgroups: aus.rail
- Organization: Insert smart-ass comment about messy deks here
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On 12 Mar 1999 07:29:59 GMT, "Roderick Smith" <rodsmith@werple.net.au>
wrote:
>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.
16-23 were also called "Central Electric" to differentiate them from
1-15, the "steam" platforms.
>AFAIK platforms 1-3 are Sydney Terminal; platforms 4-27? are Sydney
>Central.
Most station announcements and indicator boards still refer to 1-15 as
"Sydney Terminal" and 16-25 as "Central".
Albert Alcoceba
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