Historical Advertisement: Opening of the Eastern Suburbs Railway, Sydney, June 1979

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A full-page ad in the Daily Telegraph newspaper promoting the opening of the Eastern Suburbs line. Along with the copy promoting all the benefits – modern stations, high speed escalators and automatic turnstiles amongst them – there’s a neat little diagram that shows how the line is integrated into the wider transit network. Along with the nicely stylised City Circle, there’s also lines radiating out from the new stations to show bus connections. Of interest is the note that these feeder buses would be operated by a driver only, as Sydney was in the process of phasing out conductors in the late 1970s.

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