Off the Rails

Nothing has impacted my wanderings more than the $2.50 cap on public transport on a Sunday. $2.50 for all the public transport I could use? What could be better than that?

I spent a few Sundays heading up the mountains for breakfast... wandering in the city for the afternoon... exploring a wider range of libraries. But, being the obsessively inclined person that I am, it didn't take too long before that project part of my brain started firing.

If it doesn't really cost you anything... you could go anywhere.

If you don't have to find a lot of money... you could go everywhere.

Let's. Go. To. All. The. Places.

Did you know there are 178 train stations on the Sydney City Rail network? Well now I do.

The best part of this project is that I'm not by far the only train enthusiast in the world, and a lovely librarian I know shared with me one of her amazing Trove finds: The Railway Guide of New South Wales. Originally published in 1886, it has some delightful descriptions of the stations and their surroundings.

As with any good projects, there has to be guidelines, in this case, just one: to mark off a station, you have to be going to that specific station, for a specific purpose. I'm not entirely sure how long it will take me to get through them all, but let's give it a go.