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Gold Coast, Queensland: New rail extension opens to Varsity Lakes
Publicat per morb_au el 13 Desembre 2009 en English.I took a well-earned break from stirring up licencing what-ifs to add in the new extension from Robina to Varsity Lakes station. A special shuttle train was running today (with me taking advantage), and revenue service commences in about 7 hours' time. So, time to flick the switch from "railway=construction" to "=rail"!
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Comentari de AshKyd el 13 Desembre 2009 a les 13.37
Awesome, I was just thinking about that today. Did you actually go and survey it, or was it a Nearmap job?
Comentari de morb_au el 13 Desembre 2009 a les 21.33
I spent about 15 minutes on site (it took 2.5 hours to get there thanks to the stupidity of running the shuttle train from Robina *2 minutes* before the train from Brisbane came in). Went out to the junction of the roads that service the carpark and the bus stop. Not much further due to fair skin and midday sun.
So nearmap assisted with the "heavy lifting" but the site visit confirmed a few things best observed on the horizontal (e.g. the blade sign for the bus stop, and a mobile telephony tower).
The bridge immediately south of the station is also now open for traffic - I could see it crossing - but it wasn't immediately clear to me how it was joined up at each end. I've decided to wait till the next nearmap run to fill in that detail.