Recently, there was some discussion on here about Sydney Olympic Park train station, so I took some photos
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Recently, there was some discussion on here about Sydney Olympic Park train station, so I took some photos
It's set up for Spanish-style boarding, with platforms on both sides of the train. This allows for *thousands* of people to get on or off the train at the same time quickly.
#train #trains #rail #railways #Sydney #NSW #buildings #architecture #design -
Recently, there was some discussion on here about Sydney Olympic Park train station, so I took some photos
It's set up for Spanish-style boarding, with platforms on both sides of the train. This allows for *thousands* of people to get on or off the train at the same time quickly.
#train #trains #rail #railways #Sydney #NSW #buildings #architecture #design@ajsadauskas As a sidenote for folks overseas, I know that there's a history of Olympic venues being abandoned after the games.
Well, 25 years after hosting the Olympics, Olympic Park is still the main sports precinct for Western Sydney.
The main Olympic stadium is home to the National Rugby League Grand Final and State of Origin. It also hosts regular season games for South Sydney Rabbitohs and Canterbury Bulldogs.
The basketball arena is used by the Sydney Kings.
The baseball arena is used by Greater Western Sydney in the AFL, and Sydney Thunder in Big Bash league.
And the Olympic Village? It's now a mostly residential suburb called Newington.
Also, the precinct will soon be connected to the Parramatta light rail, as well as the new Western Sydney Metro. -
@ajsadauskas As a sidenote for folks overseas, I know that there's a history of Olympic venues being abandoned after the games.
Well, 25 years after hosting the Olympics, Olympic Park is still the main sports precinct for Western Sydney.
The main Olympic stadium is home to the National Rugby League Grand Final and State of Origin. It also hosts regular season games for South Sydney Rabbitohs and Canterbury Bulldogs.
The basketball arena is used by the Sydney Kings.
The baseball arena is used by Greater Western Sydney in the AFL, and Sydney Thunder in Big Bash league.
And the Olympic Village? It's now a mostly residential suburb called Newington.
Also, the precinct will soon be connected to the Parramatta light rail, as well as the new Western Sydney Metro.@aj @ajsadauskas Not to be confused with high-speed-rail Spanish-style boarding, one of the only* places in Europe involving long airport-style security queues and luggage scans to board the train (usually via a single entry point to the platform, forming another bottleneck).
*The other being Eurostar international services to/from the UK. Schengen, Brexit and all that.
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@aj @ajsadauskas Not to be confused with high-speed-rail Spanish-style boarding, one of the only* places in Europe involving long airport-style security queues and luggage scans to board the train (usually via a single entry point to the platform, forming another bottleneck).
*The other being Eurostar international services to/from the UK. Schengen, Brexit and all that.
@cycling_on_rails @aj @ajsadauskas I didn't know this was known as Spanish style! Every train I took in my life only had boarding on a single side. Might be other parts of Spain?
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