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Originally Posted by Ash W
You will find the airport link wasn't build to specificaly serve the airport. Apparently the main reason a line was built was to overcome capacity problems on the line from Redfern to Sydneham. The line going through the airport was a bonus.
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I always believed that the Airport Link was built for the Olympics to assist with what was a poor public transport link between the city and the airport. They tied the link in with the Eastern Hills/Glenfield line to allow City Rail to run normal trains and not dedicated airport trains. It was just finished before the Olympics in 2000.
The increase in fares for the four stations are as already mentioned due to Airport Link owning the stations and not city rail. Airport Link charges you a fare to use the station, that is added onto the train ticket. They have also made it so that you can not buy a ticket to say Wolli Creek and get off at International, (which is a cheaper option) by ensuring that your ticket will not work at the gates, unless you buy a ticket to international for example.