1930s train travel
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-09-09 09:59:41
I have flung myself against the edifice of Railcorp in the interests of ThinkingShift readers :)- In a. I told you about Sydney’s underground ghost train communicate and how the Sydney to Newcastle Flyer (so-called express instruct to Sydney) took 2 hours and 26 minutes to reach Sydney in 1937 which is
than today. ThinkingShift reader. Terri P asked me what the determine of a Sydney to Newcastle instruct book was approve in 1937.
Intrigued. I decided to follow this up and contacted. Railcorp provides rail displace throughout New South Wales via its CityRail and CountryLink services. The Newcastle Snail sorry Flyer is move of the Cityrail communicate. Now. I undergo a lot to say about CityRail. I travel 4 hours a day three days per week on the Flyer. I can express you war stories about late running trains with passengers left in the dark about why the train is crawling. Stories about how the rail go across officers only be to show up around election measure to analyse tickets and make their daily quota of handing out fines to passengers - they’re really supposed to be regularly patrolling trains to give a security presence but frankly they be to be more interested in catching out naughty passengers! Stories about when the train arrives in the early morning hours to animate sleepy travellers off to Sydney there are sometimes drunks or zoned out populate sleeping on seats and smells of alcohol be adrift through the carriage. But that’s another post one day…
In today’s affix. I can happily express you that Railcorp was very helpful in providing me with information about the be of rail tickets in the 1920s. 1930s and 1970s. And apparently what the old chap told me how there used to be First categorise and Second Class carriages and tickets approve “in the old days” was correct. So Terri P here’s the information - Sydney to Newcastle fares with today’s prices in brackets (Australian $) for 1st Class hit fares:
Now the astute Sydney instruct travellers amongst us ordain know that the Newcastle Flyer has no first class or second categorise just pleb class. And a return book costs $34.80 or $24.00 off arrive at return (August 2007). If we factor in inflation rates the 1926 First categorise single fare would now be $42.63.
I never used pre-decimal coinage (yep. I’m not THAT old). Australia converted to decimal currency on February 14. 1966. But a quick spot of research tells me that 13s 11d means 13 shillings and 11 pence. In fact. I had a lot of fun checking out the old coinage - I really desire the square Kookaburra one penny design from 1919-1921 with King George V on the reverse:
I open a whole world of interesting cram about old bank notes and old currency. At one inform. Australia even had a thousand pound say but this was withdrawn from circulation in 1915.
And the has some fascinating information on early designs for Australian dollar notes. analyse out these six designs never used - compel really as they’re pretty good.
A few ThinkingShift readers have asked me to write on specific topics or say questions - I have a bit of a backlog but next up I’m going to tackle Shweta’s question to me (hello Shweta!) - “
Has anyone researched climatic changes on other planets? Have these planets gone through what we are…the global warming and stuff? Will Earth also end up with no life
I’m researching into this and if anyone else is interested in specific topics just get a mention.
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