CityRail Driver Identification Guide
(Light-Hearted Humour!)

Maintained by Craig Dewick - Updated November 2009

Have you ever wondered which depot a particular CityRail driver may belong to? 8-) If you have, or you are a CityRail driver who is identity-challenged (!), this identification guide may be of help...

The Depots

As you know, railway operations from a train crewing perspective are set up so that wherever a lot of trains start their journeys, or at places where there are major junctions or yards, there will usually be a crew depot established there (but not always).

Each depot, especially within the ETR (Electric Train Running) section of CityRail, is located in an area which has a unique identifiable local culture depending on the geographic location and/or the type of people which live in that area.

The following drawings were prepared by a CityRail driver who shall remain nameless (!), but the tongue-in-cheek way they are drawn is just so good I felt they deserved wider recognition.

The First Page - Small Version (tm). Click image for large version
Flemington, Punchbowl (RIP), Cronulla, North Sydney, Waterfall and Hornsby depots
Alternate versions - 1243 x 800 JPEG (173 KB), full-size 3498 x 2538 PPM scan (this is huge - 26 MB!)

The Second Page - Small Version (tm). Click image for large version
Blacktown, Campbelltown, Richmond, Penrith, Mortdale and Central depots
Alternate versions - 1157 x 817 JPEG (161 KB), full-size 3498 x 2538 PPM scan (this is huge - 25 MB!)

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