AHC Downunder: Sydney suburban built according to the orignal plans

Sydney's splendid suburban railway network was largely designed by Dr. John Joe Crew Bradfield. It has the highest capacity of any suburban railway network in Australasia, with very few level crossings, additionally, all it's trains are double decked.
But there are some low capacity stations with little waiting space, reportedly lots of at-grade junctions and sections with slow line speeds.
The Sydney suburban has been widely critisised as being a clumsy 19th century suburban rail network.
An example of a low capacity station with only one escalator is Town Hall.

But actually, the Bradfield vision was compromised, and the original plans would have been for a much higher capacity network than resulted. Two stations, Town Hall being one of them were, for example, to have track bi-furcation so that more trains could be in the station at a time.

So what if they Sydney suburban had been built according to the original plans?
 

Devvy

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Late to the game (and paging Riain to this thread!). Some random thoughts, although Sydney is far from my hometown :)

From a quick bit of reading up, much of it wasn't built due to financial pressures during the depression and WWII, which is inevitably going to take priority. Ignoring that, I guess come the 1960s and the rapidly increasing population, several of the shorter suburban lines could be segregated to form newish Tube lines (ie. rapid transit), so you'd end up with maybe 3 or so tube lines in Sydney serving the local suburbs. The further out suburban lines would inevitably be run down a bit as the car becomes popular, but the key is to get the infrastructure in place before the green belt starts constraining development; population density will then increase and make the expanded network more viable.
 
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