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Sydney Trains

City Rail, or otherwise known as "shitty rail". This is one of the major factors of why I wouldn't want to live & work in Sydney.11PM at Sutherland, a modest sized city, and there are very few people at the train station. And most of them are drunk... ...full story at Mottekaero

from Mottekaero on Fri, Jul 31 2009

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