Re: Some oddities in Sydney Underground system?

[Jonathan Lau <jonlau@ozemail.com.au>]

Chatswood had it's platforms renumbered when the Terminating Road was
removed in 1995.

Typical Railway way... There going to have renumber them again when the
Parramatta to Chatswood rail link is built and extra platforms are required!

Jon Lau

ROY HOWARTH wrote:

> Re Wynyard platforms....
> In 1986, it was planned to renumber platforms 5 & 6 to 1 & 2. It was
> later dropped (probably for the confusion it may have caused). Also, the
> former tramway platforms & tunnels are still owned by the Railways, and
> leased by the Menzies Hotel on the understanding that the Railways may
> want it all back one day.
>
> For the record, I vaguely recall the railway platforms at Milsons Point
> were still numbered 3 & 4 in the 1970's - well after the (original)
> tramway platforms 1 & 2 were demolished in 1959.
>
> <snip>
>
> >The platforms may have been used before Circular Quay opened, im
> >not sure. They were never used for their intended lines.
>
> No, track was never laid in the middle platforms at St James.
>
> Roy H