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Re: New South Wales

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Concord Road, Concord West?
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^^ROFL!!!^^
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Re: New South Wales

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Hornibrook: Its the NSW where is it-not the "Sydney Metro" where is it... I deliberately took the and cropped the photo so as to leave a large amount of context so it could be easily guessed by someone. Its bloody impossible to guess where half the STA buses are that dominate this contest...

Shovelyjoe: That guess is incorrect-its taken somewhere on the North Coast of NSW...

Note the other Blanch's bus behind it in the distance-both are on scheduled route service. [as in route not school] Google Blanchs bus company and glance their timetables and route maps and you will narrow it down fairly eaisly
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Lennox Head?
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Re: New South Wales

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good guess, but again incorrect
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Re: New South Wales

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Ballina,Kerr St???
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Re: New South Wales

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nope-not Kerr street...

getting closer tho... Its in Ballina...
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Re: New South Wales

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Tamar Road?
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Re: New South Wales

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do you mean Tamar Street?

Either way, Its still incorrect...
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Is it Southern Cross Drive, Ballina - on the way towards Ballina Airport?
(Sorta looks familiar... even though I've only been to that airport once)

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Re: New South Wales

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Getting colder...

The answer is quite eaisly apparent if you glance at the Blanch's timetable*-its rare for two route services to be following each other so closely...

* which you will find here http://www.blanchs.com.au/timetables.html
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Route 640 I think. Thats all I can make out from the desto..

I think it might be:

Ewingsdale - cnr Pacific Hwy
& Ewingsdale Rd
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Nope-wrong end of the 640-its within minutes of reaching Ballina Airport

the desto says "640 BALLINA CBD/AIRPORT"
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Bangalow Rd, Ballina?
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Re: New South Wales

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thats veeerrrrrrrrrrrry close....

this has dragged on long enough-i'm giving it to Newcastle Flyer because he literally is 200 meters out

the bus is on Cherry Street passing Ballina Hospital on its way to the Airport. In about 200 meters it veers to the left, just past the intersection with Fox Street [there is a crossroads and T intersection within 50 meters of each other-Fox and Cherry and Bangalow Road and Cherry]-I was standing on the grassy knoll out the front of the Motel [forget it's name] ready to shoot the passing motorcade :D

The bus behind it is operating a route 641 to Byron Bay-basically the same only the 641 goes via the Pacific Highway and Bangalow whereas the 640 goes via Lennox Head and The Coast Road. 641 only operates as a token service, either school runs or positioning trips for school runs [this photo was taken at 2:35] As I understand at no other time do two Blanch's buses leave Tamar Street in such close sucession-IIRC there are a few times when a Buslines bus and a Blanch's bus leave at the same time, but they very quickly seperate. These two buses would follow each other all the way to Southern Cross Drive-thats about 3 or 4 kilometers

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Newcastle Station?
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Not exactly the station, now should I give it to him?
Yeah I will, it's just up from Newcastle Station on Wharf Rd, near the Customs House.

It's bus 3106 on the now ex-Route 108.
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Thanks NewcastleFlyer, didn't realise you gave it to me. I don't have anything worth guessing at the moment, so open floor :)
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Where is Hunter Railcar 2706?
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Re: New South Wales

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Warabrook?
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Warabrook it is, Newcastle Flyer.
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Re: New South Wales

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I'll post a photo later, and Shovelyjoe, I would say that you took that photo around the 1:30 to 2pm mark or so, so it's probably either the 1:19,/:45 or 2:08pm train heading for Newcastle.
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Newcastle Flyer wrote:I'll post a photo later, and Shovelyjoe, I would say that you took that photo around the 1:30 to 2pm mark or so, so it's probably either the 1:19,/:45 or 2:08pm train heading for Newcastle.
Yeah, it was around that time. How did you know?
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Re: New South Wales

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There's a clue in your photo.

Okay, where is interurban V-2?
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