August Quiz - Day 18

South Quay is the only station in the group that has a body of water on at least two sides.

South Quay is the only station in the group that doesn't have a station building.

There's an Epping station on the Sydney network, but none of the others.

Well done Yerkes, that's exactly right.

All share their name with a station on another metro network, except South Quay

Epping - Sydney [sydneynick, whose descriptions are below]

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This is the view from the road overbridge to the south of the station. In the centre foreground, the red-roofed building is typical of platform shelters built during the expansion and electrification of the Sydney system in the 1930s. Behind it are new buildings less than a year old, constructed as part of adapting the station for the new Epping-Chatswood line: shelters at platform level and booking office/shops/etc on the overbridge. The track at left is the northbound track, and I don't know why it has two extra rails. The track to its right used to have bi-directional signalling: it was used for trains terminating at Epping and sometimes to allow a fast train to overtake a slow one. It has been out of use during construction work (note no overhead) but it seems to have been recently reballasted, so I expect it will be brought back into use when the new line opens.


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This is also from the road overbridge, and shows the southbound line


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This is taken from the road to the east of the station, and shows the new station building in all its utilitarian ugliness.

Victoria - Athens (photo from Wikipedia [source])


Monument - Tyne and Wear (photo by Chris M)

I wouldn't have believed it either before I saw a reference to it in an earlier photoquiz These quizzes are highly educational!