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Sydney is Australia's largest city and has an extensive railway network, with suburban services encompassing an area extending to Richmond and Emu Plains to the west, Macarthur to the south, Berowra to the
North and Waterfall and Cronulla in the Illawarra. Intercity services reach as far as Newcastle, Scone and Dungog to the North, Lithgow out West, Goulburn to the south and Bomaderry (Nowra) and Port Kembla in the Illawarra.
Further a field, Countrylink cover major regional centres by rail or coach services, many operating most days of the week.
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Automated Information
CityRail has very little in the way of automated information.
DVA, generally, has to be controlled manually by station staff, an unfortunate
result of this is that when a station is unattended, no recorded information
is available. The only exceptions to this are the Airport Line, and Olympic
Park station, which do operate automatically off track circuits. "Talking
Bricks" also do not exist on the CityRail network. However, commuter telephones
can be found on the interurban routes. By pressing a button on the telephone,
you are transferred through to the station controlled that area.
CityRail's only form on "push button" information comes in the
form of a commuter telephone. This is one such example, taken at Bell.
© Glenn Jackson-Bethell |
The DVA and SPI at Olympic Park operate in conjunction with each other.
The announcements play automatically, and are activated by either the
track circuits as a train approaches, or by changes in the SPI display.
The announcement will also say exactly displayed, ie, ...."goes to
Clyde, stopping at all stations".
© Glenn Jackson-Bethell |
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