A Different Life

Doing some research.  Moss Vale in the Southern Highlands is very nice, and has a number of houses available.  But while I've only been there twice, I do know that it doesn't have a major shopping centre; you have to go into Bowral for that.  And since I don't drive (hi TallDave!), that's a little inconvenient.  It's only 10 minutes by train, but the trains are 90 minutes to 2 hours apart.  There are buses, too but...

Anyway, I was doing a little research, finding out what I could online before I head down there in the morning.  (Going to try to hit Mittagong, Bowral and Moss Vale in the same day.)  And I find that there are reviews of grocery stores.

Moss Vale Tuckerbag:

i quite like the moss vale tuckerbag store, its pleasant to be in, more so than the competitor down the road. overall staff are quite plesant and fast but one problem i do have is how SLOW the docket machines are! its time to upgrade them!

And:

This supermarket is good, the prices are good and the service is okay, however the docket printer is so slow!!! You have to wait for the docket to print which seems like a lifetime.

Those were posted in 2007.  But now:

There are new checkouts at SUPA IGA Tuckerbag Moss Vale! Much faster.

Yay!

One of the places - actually, about seven of the places; it's a brand new complex of townhouses - I want to look at in Moss Vale backs right onto the railway line.

The Unanderra - Moss Vale railway line.

I don't think I need to worry much.

I've been on that line; in fact, that's how I visited Moss Vale on one of those trips.  After surveying the timetables carefully, I bought a return ticket to Moss Vale, went the other way, down to Wollongong, and then hopped aboard the train via Mount Murray and Robertson to Moss Vale, wandered around a bit, had lunch, and then hopped aboard a train back to Sydney.*

I don't think I was supposed to do any of that. The line has been closed to regular trains for years, and that was probably a special tourist service I was on.  But I didn't know that at the time, and fortunately no-one was checking tickets.

That's not the only partly disused tourist railway in the area either.  There's also the Picton Loop line, now home of the New South Wales Rail Tansport Museum.

* Which reminds me - do they still run those funny old trains down to Bomaderry, or have they been replaced by now?  I went down there on a day trip once, and on the way back I was the only passenger, and they didn't notice me and turned off all the lights.

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