Taken in the mid 1990s sometime.

fm wrote:Well Fred, The XPT/Xplorers have been known to have crossed the bridge too.
Red and Cream wrote:Would we see a repeat of this nowadays without any electric locos?
jb17kx wrote:well, apart from a good old steamer going through Toowong Station in Brisbane.
BTW, how do XPTs usually get over the harbour?
ajw373 wrote:jb17kx wrote:well, apart from a good old steamer going through Toowong Station in Brisbane.
BTW, how do XPTs usually get over the harbour?
They go around through Strathfield and Epping, not over the bridge and up the North Shore line. Central doesn't have the layout to allow country trains, electric, XPT or Explorer's to over the bridge unless they use the suburban platforms.
If there are track works on the line through Epping you will sometimes see Newcastle electrics use the bridge, but they use suburban platforms. During these works they will normally allow XPT's and Explorers run through the works, must be much easier to schedule due to their low movement numbers.
ajw373 wrote:jb17kx wrote:well, apart from a good old steamer going through Toowong Station in Brisbane.
BTW, how do XPTs usually get over the harbour?
They go around through Strathfield and Epping, not over the bridge and up the North Shore line. Central doesn't have the layout to allow country trains, electric, XPT or Explorer's to over the bridge unless they use the suburban platforms.
If there are track works on the line through Epping you will sometimes see Newcastle electrics use the bridge, but they use suburban platforms. During these works they will normally allow XPT's and Explorers run through the works, must be much easier to schedule due to their low movement numbers.
ajw373 wrote:jb17kx wrote:well, apart from a good old steamer going through Toowong Station in Brisbane.
BTW, how do XPTs usually get over the harbour?
They go around through Strathfield and Epping, not over the bridge and up the North Shore line. Central doesn't have the layout to allow country trains, electric, XPT or Explorer's to over the bridge unless they use the suburban platforms.
If there are track works on the line through Epping you will sometimes see Newcastle electrics use the bridge, but they use suburban platforms. During these works they will normally allow XPT's and Explorers run through the works, must be much easier to schedule due to their low movement numbers.
fm wrote:I think it is more mid 1980's that 90's. SRA locos in the 1990's were in blue and gold livery!!! Also by mid 1990's the UTA/STA bendis were more or less in the livery we see today!!!
ajw373 wrote:jb17kx wrote:well, apart from a good old steamer going through Toowong Station in Brisbane.
BTW, how do XPTs usually get over the harbour?
They go around through Strathfield and Epping, not over the bridge and up the North Shore line. Central doesn't have the layout to allow country trains, electric, XPT or Explorer's to over the bridge unless they use the suburban platforms.
If there are track works on the line through Epping you will sometimes see Newcastle electrics use the bridge, but they use suburban platforms. During these works they will normally allow XPT's and Explorers run through the works, must be much easier to schedule due to their low movement numbers.
Route243 wrote:Crossing Sydney Harbour using the Harbour Bridge and travelling north can be done from the Inter-City platforms at Central.
A few weeks ago I was on a Newcastle train parked at one of the said platforms, but due to a freight train breakdown at Beecroft it had to go via North Shore.
What the train did was travel to Erskineville and switch back (Zigzag Railway style) to the suburban platforms at Central. From there it went to Town Hall then Wynyard and over the Harbour Bridge to Hornsby, Central Coast and Newcastle.
Mind you half of the passengers who were travelling forward to Erskineville then travelled backwards.
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