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Re: Airport Link OPEN!
Swap ya.
Some might look at that being a blessing.
No Olympics to worry about!
:-)
rgds
"C. Dewick" wrote:
>
> 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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