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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?
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