[NSW] "Sydney Terminal" = Central?

Excuse my ignorance, but when did Central become "Sydney Terminal"?

The loudspeaker annoucements seem to say that now.

CJ

Whilst I worked there the country section changed name 4 times. Most of us
just give up and call it Sydney Terminal and the suburban part Central
anyway....
I think once an order came out that we were to call them "Central" and
"Central Electric" at one point. Seemed silly so we didn't.

"Geoff Lambert" <G.Lambert@unsw.edu.au> wrote in message
news:3f1b4868.8457282@news.unsw.edu.au...
> On 20 Jul 2003 18:49:04 -0700, cj_123456@m ($CJ) wrote:
>
> >Excuse my ignorance, but when did Central become "Sydney Terminal"?
> >
>
> It's been like that since God was in short pants. "Sydney Terminal"
> is just one variation on some names used for the "Country Platforms",
> to distinguish them from the through-running electric platforms.
> "Sydney (Steam Station)" was an earlier variant. To some extent, the
> differentiation seems to be a convenience for taxi drivers, who will
> still ask you which one you want and will still deliver you to the
> Railway Square or Elizabeth St entrance accordingly.
>
> Geoff Lambert
>

On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Les Brown wrote:

> >Or since J.C. played full-back for South Jerusalem.

> Nope, not for that team. But you can find him every Thursday playing Aussie
> Rules in the park beside the Yarkon River in Tel-Aviv. My son used to play
> footy there with other expat Aussies and Australian Embassy staff. They used
> to get at least one J.C. per match, sometimes two. When they got two they
> used them as ruck no matter how tall they are because they seem to be able
> to reach higher than anyone else anyway. (:-)

Yep; spending Easter just "hanging around" has its advantages...

> Occasionally the ball used to roll in to the Yarkon, which is more of an
> open drain than a river. Well, he'd go and fish it out of the disgusting
> slime with quite some difficulty [...]

But he was able to walk on the surface?

-- Dave