Newcastle Interchange - The First Trains

Hi all.

12am on the morning of Sunday 15th October 2017 the concourse area of the new Newcastle Interchange station opened.
1:30am on the dot the 3 brand new platforms opened.

The very first passenger train out of the station departed soon after 1:30am.
It was a Fassifern service run by OSCar set H24 and it departed from platform number 1.
Not too long after H24 departed, Hunter set J4 formed the first Hunter Line service out of the new station.
It was bound for Telarah and departed from platform number 2.

I finished the night by catching the 2:45am service back to Sydney which was an OSCar and departed from platform number 3.

The photo's in this blog show the concourse, the other shows the first trains side by side.

Here is the link to the video:
https://youtu.be/AcA6eaDyx1g

Thanks for reading.

Newcastle Demolition Update 1

On Tuesday 10th November 2015 i boarded a train from Epping to Hamilton then got a Newcastle Shuttle Bus Route 110 to Wickham to see what has happened so far in terms of demolition of the Newcastle Line.

Upon walking up to Wickham station i noticed that most of the Pandrol Clips have been removed from the tracks.

Pandrol Clips are used to lock the train tracks to the sleepers.

The overhead wiring has also been removed from Wickham to Civic stations.

Overhead wiring remains from Civic to Newcastle.

Within a week id say that all Overhead wiring will be removed.

Photo (below): A notice for one of the areas where a walkway has been formed over the tracks will be closed due to overhead removal.

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Photo (below): Workers removing overhead wiring between Wickham and Civic Stations.

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Photo (below): On a brigher note one of their trucks were stuck in the ballast!

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Photo (below): Once the overhead wiring is taken down it is cut up into 2-3 metre segments as seen in this pile.

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Photo (below): Workers and a cherry picker make their way into Civic station for the removal of more overhead wiring.

The overhead wiring on the other side of the footbridge i was standing on remains but not for long.

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Phil, Sydney Trains Vlogs