If you agree that the rail line is a problem for the regeneration of the Newcastle CBD are there other ways to deal with the issue apart from the removal of the line? more ...

With climate change and high petrol prices there seem to be many imperatives for retaining and improving public transport services rather than removing them. What would the impact of removing rail from the CBD actually be? more ...

The major argument leveled against the rail line into the CBD is that it isolates the City from the foreshore and Honeysuckle. Do you agree with this and if so what should be done about it? more ...

The major argument leveled against the rail line into the CBD is that it isolates the City from the foreshore and Honeysuckle. Do you agree with this and if so what should be done about it? more ...

In order for Newcastle to prosper and develop, we, as a city, need to develop a change strategy that will allow us to progress. At present, we have a dilapidated city centre with numerous empty shops and more ...

With climate change and high petrol prices there seem to be many imperatives for retaining and improving public transport services rather than removing them. What would the impact of removing rail from the CBD actually be? more ...

How would users of the current rail service react to a terminus at Civic or to the West?  more ...

How would users of the current rail service react to a terminus at Civic or to the West? more ...

If you agree that the rail line is a problem for the regeneration of the Newcastle CBD are there other ways to deal with the issue apart from the removal of the line? more ...

Time after time we have to justify having this line after attacks from the development groups. I have never seen any proof removing it would be positive. All the experts I've heard say it should stay. Its all very well for people to think it will be a cure all for the city but once it is gone its gone forever. more ...

In regard to this debate there is one thing that is patently obvious. This is the inability of the anti rail lobby to accept why the Newcastle CBD has died. If you look at history honestly and objectively more ...

Jodi Mackay has stated on air and in the Newspapers that the Newcastle Community has spoken about retaining the heavy rail line and that GPT is not going to get away with holding a gun to the head of the more ...

The opening statements to most major Topics do not allow a real vote or indication of importance because of the way the statement is phrased. This to me gives false impressions and thus the results are not of real value. I also find other strange things happen. more ...

Newcastlle has been presented with a one off and spectacular opportunity to see a massive and much needed redevelopment of the city centre. The railway line as it is will inhibit this development and may more ...

The proposal by GPT is flawed in that it hinges on the removal of the rail line to Wickham. Why does the line have to be truncated when it is claimed that it will be turned into a "green" corridor. What more ...

option 1.... Heavy rail link to Newcastle station (untouched) option 2.... Tram system with a green area from Newcastle to Wickham option 3.... Just a green corridor from Newcastle to Wickham This more ...

Newcastle is lacking in parking, local shopping centres have free parking bringing the shoppers to the centres. Roads into Newcastle can not handle huge increases in traffic to Newcastle that developments will bring. more ...

"The people of Newcastle and the Hunter deserve to have a say in the future of our CBD." What a joke! Newcastle is a city in decay thanks to you and past governments. All that happens is talk and when more ...

It is my understanding this forum was set up to gauge CURRENT public opinion about Connectivity and in particular how the heavy rail influences this desired connectivity. It is clearly emerging (from discussion more ...

Let me start by bringing some comparative analogy. Imagine running a restaurant with say, 200 seats and only on a very rare occasion you’ll have a customer occupying one of the seats and placing an order more ...

The very cashed up investor can afford a subway! Lets not be bluffed in giving up our taxpayer owned resource cheaply. Everyone of the ugly Honeysuckle buildings has underground carparks on the waterfront! Build more ...

My biggest problem with heavy rail to Newcastle is the plethora of level crossings - there are four of these from Broadmeadow to the city, and these are the cause of most discomfit and dissatisfaction more ...

Quite frankly, no matter what your view is on the rail line, I am disgusted & offended that the Lord Mayor could use the Andrew Johns walk as a political message in regards to the rail line.
He stood more ...

The fernleigh walking track from adamstown to whitebridge is something that people of Newcastle and Lake Macquarie can be proud of. But i think that this corridor could be utilised a little bit better.
The more ...

I love this City and its Great People. My apologies to all of you for not getting involved in the past debates about the “Great Divide,” well before GPT appeared on our shores, and for allowing a minuscule more ...

To date 68,720 people have veiwed these topics on connectivity to Newcastle.. Some making comments, some using the thumbs up & thumbs down system, even some people emailing. Could Jodi Mckay tell us why more ...

After living in many cities in the world, I find Newcastle to be one of the best. I also use the train all the time. I have seen various 'solutions' to transport in those cities.
1) Success one: add, more ...

I have been involved one way or another in the Newcastle Transport system for more than 30 years. I feel I am experienced enough to now have my say. I worked on the Double decker buses as a conductor in more ...

There is several issues involved in this matter.
The first is greed. Lets face facts. Developers do what they do to make money. Money is their motivation and they expect to make as much of it as they more ...

The Newcastle railway station would be an ideal place to have markets. When you travel in any city the world over their markets are a vibrant place for people to mingle & indulge in all the products of the areas around the local cities Honeysuckle Markets have been a terrible loss to all of us in the Newcastle more ...

Time and time again I have seen developers ride into town, promise the world and when the crunch time comes, find they have no money. What if the State Government decides to use valuable Tax Payers money to rip up the rails and then the developer fails to come up with the goods. Assurances, assurances, they are worthless, all developers makes assurances. more ...

Why not build an underground station at Newcastle Station and have the green space on top. more ...

The Herald advises that the rail could be removed from Wickham to Newcastle for a mere $160 million dollars. A bridge at Stewart Avenue, over or under the rail would cost about $M50, throw in a crossing at Worth Place and Steel Street and there's still plenty left over for gardens all the way to Hamilton. Now isn't that a better use of $M160? more ...

I am a regular train user. I spent close to a year living in Vancouver, BC (Canada). So I found the Newcastle Herald article regarding Newcastle transport interesting, especially with the picture of Canada more ...

It is so simple. An evolved Central Newcastle is and always has been an ugly industrial city built on on a beautiful site. No matter how much planning and re-arranging is proposed, while the foreshore more ...

I agree the rail line does cut off the harbour from the city but we MUST keep the corridor for alternative transport for the future. Once it's gone to developers it's GONE FOREVER. In 10, 20 or 50 years more ...

Go onto the 2nd GPT YouTube site and see how the rail line from Newcastle Station and Wharf Road are covered in buildings down to Wolfe St. So much for the 'green corridor'. It is still about a land grab. more ...

A railway line from Maitland to Cessnock would bring more money into the local economies of Newcastle and Maitland by capitalising on the wineries ect connecting Newcastle to Cessnock is a major priority??? more ...

WITH THE PROJECTED POPULATION OF NEWCASTLE AND MAITLAND ECT.THERES NO BETTER REASON TO CUT THE RAILWAY LINE AT WICKHAM AND BUILD A MUCH LARGER STATION WITH MORE PLATFORMS. WHAT WILL HAPPEN YEARS DOWN THE more ...

New CBD metro plans announced
Andrew Clennell and Alexandra Smith October 24, 2008 - 3:52PM
A $4 billion CBD metro line from Central Station to Rozelle would be built with plans to build a North West more ...

I have spent many, many hours sitting in transport interchanges all over the world, and if I, as a traveller, ended up stuck in Broadmeadow or Wickham for a few hours I certainly wouldn't want to come back to Newcastle in a hurry! To show off our city you have to make it easy to "accidentally" see it, rather than make it easy to avoid. Cutting a major artery is not the solution. more ...

Interesting that the pro-rail lobby have their knickers in a knot about 2km of barely used rail line when perhaps 1/3 to 1/4 of the region's citizens, being those in the area from Merewether to Swansea, more ...

How to improve the City for the benefit of most without disadvantaging some too much. Collectively we all want to improve our environs so I offer this scenario as an opening gambit for your comment. Offer more ...

Let's leave the past behind, who uses the Newcastle Rail line anyway. I've lived in the lower Hunter for 23 years and the last time I went to Newcastle on the Train was in 1981. Jodie why do we have to more ...

The real issue for rail transport in the Newcastle city area is that the existing line is out-moded,inadequate and disruptive.We need to improve the current system. Light-rail is the obvious solution. more ...

What bothers me is the viability of the whole proposal.
As has been said before, people deserted Newcastle for the suburban shopping centers. And, while it may be debated precisely why, what I think we more ...

On November 11 1997 Jeff Corbett Wrote the Following Column in the Newcastle Herald.
This suggests to the writer that we have been debating the Foreshore and Graffiti for a long time. What do you think?
City's more ...

A rail line from Newcastle,deviating from Warabook would breathe even more life into Newcastle,with all the tourist going to Port Stephens it would make it alot easier to travel to Newcastle more ...

A green corridor with pleasant places for people to sit, gather, listen to music (buskers etc) have a light meal, shelter from cold winds off the foreshore on not so pleasant days, sounds to me like a more ...

This map shows a possible service diagram of Newcastle, Hunter and Central Coast rail lines, that I believe would enhance rail patronage, improve access to rail and public transport in these areas, reduce road congestion, improve safety, and have many other benefits, which many people have talked about on various topics on this site.
I invite people to make comments, express thoughts, suggestions etc.  more ...

Utilise the Newcastle rail line as part of a revitalising continuous tram / light rail service from the foreshore (station) through to Waratah, across to Broadmeadow, Adamstown, Junction, West End, up through the Mall then around again ! (or some similar circuit). Do not waste the existing infrastructure -- improve it so that it opens the CBD to the concrete canyon near the harbour. more ...

Passenger trains do not cause too much delay at rail crossings, however I know from experience ( unfortunately ) how long each delay can be due to the slow moving and long freight trains. I also experience more ...

With the rail gone we could open up our harbour and a shopping mall then with a park where the trains now go we could make this a great city. After all we all drive to a train so why not drive to Broadmeadow. Come on Novacastians GROW UP take a look at the city and compare it with the other side of the line water flows and trees grow so why not incorporate them with the city mall. more ...

To admin, I would like an explanation as to the way you post a topic question, yet change the question in the subject body.
For example you ask in this topic (http://www.bangthetable.com/topic/do-you-use-the-rail-line-now more ...

Last month I was in Auckland and had the privilege of travelling into Auckland Station by train. What a great experience! Brand new train - spotlessly clean - fantastic terminal and most helpful staff. FREE to the over 60's
Take a look for yourself by Googling 'Britomart Transport Centre'
Notice that the five platforms are all below sea level and the trains are all diesel powered
The old Post Office would be ideal for this type of development.  more ...

Removal of the rail line east of Wickham Station will not open the magic gateway to the harbour. In these times of dwindling natural resources such as petrol and the impact on global warming there will more ...

i just heard a rumour that there was going to be a public discussion regarding newcastle's train line at Newcastle Panthers on 25th Nov.... however no time was given... has anybody else heard anything more about this and do u have any more info... i am very keen to attend and get my voice heard regarding the matter. thanks more ...

More money should be spent on Lake Macquarie e.g. more railway lines going through the lake macquarie area. if there were more lines going through lake macquarie there'd be alot more tourist visiting areas like swansea, warners bay, belmont...  more ...

if there were a railway line travelling from the hunter to dubbo. it would help connect nsw up a little? it would also make things alot easier for the people who live in northern nsw - how about that??? more ...