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Re: Airport Link OPEN!
- Subject: Re: Airport Link OPEN!
- From: craigd@lios.apana.org.au (C. Dewick)
- Date: 1 Dec 1999 11:14:08 +1100
- Newsgroups: aus.rail,misc.transport.rail.australia-nz
- Organization: Lios - Children of the Light - May the Schwartz be With You
- References: <3843EE8E.2E3ADBEE@ozemail.com.au>
In <3843EE8E.2E3ADBEE@ozemail.com.au> David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au> writes:
>Commencing tomorrow (Thursday), 8 car G sets will start running through the
>Airport tunnel. The first train is due to depart Central 11:01 arriving at
>Turella at 15:39. This is for noise and vibration testing.
And presumably no Waterfall drivers will be rostered for this. 8-)
Did you know that we are now the only group of ETR drivers that are not
qualified for Olympic Park station, etc..
Actually, I think we have the least road qualifications of any CityRail
suburban crew depot, because currently we're not qualified for:
- Olympic Park, Flemington Junction, Lidcombe 'Sprint' platform, etc.
- Homebush freight loop and all of the other dedicated freight lines
- Hornsby yard and maintenance centre
- short north beyond Hornsby
- Flemington yard and maintenance centre
- Penrith yard, and the main line from Penrith to Emu Plains
- Campbelltown yard
- Eveleigh (train presentation centre, etc.)
- Sydney yard (country, intercity yard and platforms)
- Maintrain (at Auburn)
- entire Richmond and Carlingford lines
- Clyde up yard (freightcorpse)
- main south between Regents Park and Cabramatta
- airport line (this probably doesn't count yet since almost nobody is
qualifiied for it yet)
No other Cityrail suburban crew depot appears to have as incomplete a set of
metropolitan road qualifications as we (Waterfall depot drivers) do... sigh.
Regards,
Craig.
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