Re: Extra Blacktown platform (was: St Leonards, NSW)

["WhaleOilBeefHooked" <daproc@sd5.mailbank.com>]

Firstly, there is room at Blacktown for an additional platform - Hornsby is
hard pressed for room.

Secondly, Blacktown has a need during the Olympics, for turning around
trains - Hornsby does not fill this requirement.

DaveP

Garry Hoddinett <hoddos@netspace.net.au> wrote in message
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> I find it amazing that another platform is being built at Blacktown
bringing
> the total to seven.  Surely the money could have been better spent in
> building another platform at Hornsby which CityRail has long recognized
> would improve train service reliability and flexibility to trains that use
> this important junction.  There are also a number of other places around
> Sydney that I would have thought should be ahead of Blacktown for another
> platform (eg Liverpool, Cabramatta, Sutherland).  I suspect the platforms
> main short term purpose is to provide a terminating point for Olympic Park
> services but with competant signalling and perhaps a few yard alterations
I
> would have thought they could cope with the existing six platforms.
>
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