Re: Re:[NSW] Nth Sydney platform 3 (was Artarmon Platform 1)

["Jonathan Boles" <mousewithglasses@mail.com>]

North Sydney down terminating road (platform 3) is really bad. Whenever a
Tangarbage terminates, there is always a door off the end of the platform, or
inside the tunnel. In contrast, the neighbouring station Milsons Pt is longer
than 8 cars by about half a car.

Jonathan Lau <jonlau@ozemail.com.au> wrote in article
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> "chris@enet21.com.au" wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > A couple of years ago there was a mad rush by cityrail in extending
> > station platforms for I assume 10 & 12 car trains. I don't see any
> > trains of this length in service (8 is the maximum?), so is it because
> > of a shortage of rolling stock or unions ?
> >
> 
> On the topic of platforms, Platform 1 (up platform) at Artarmon is really
> only 7.8 Cars long!! The last door of the last carriage would often end up
> on the sloping end of the platform, requiring passengers to jump out of
> the last door and on to the slope.
> 
> The SM had someone from per way come and measure the platform and they
> confirmed that it was short by several metres. This was because the
> platform was on a slight curve and they think that someone stuffed up when
> they built it in the early 1900's.
> 
> I think the above problem was rectified by moving the stop location of 8
> cars trains further up the platform, although it still happens from time
> to time, depending on the driver!
> 
> Jon Lau
> 
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