Would you believe it, but I was just advised that the entire Gold Coast Rail line south of Park Rd Brisbane will be closed all weekend for trackwork purposes.

So all those trams will be conveying passengers to and from nothing but buses until Monday morning!

Irregardless, Sunday will be a better day for locals than Christmas Eve.

Regards,

> On 13 Dec 2017, at 9:39 am, Richard Youltressteleg@... [TramsDownUnder] TramsDownUnder@...> wrote:

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> Following a tip-off from John Hudson I phoned CPB and my contact there advised that the extension WILL open on Sunday.

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> There will be an official ceremony at Helensvale at 10am.

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> Not much warning for any interstaters who may wish to attend, but hopefully those closer to the line can come.

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> (So I won’t be in the wrong tram city for the opening day. They kindly moved it forward. On Saturday 2 December a CPB senior stated most certainly that it would not be that weekend. They certainly got a wriggle on but ‘the paint will still be drying’ on some things on Sunday.)

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> Regards,

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> Richard

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