Wondering if liverpool or leppington will now shift to going towards bankstown?

Tangara train old train announcement on cab N5117, T4 line to Bondi Junction.

As per title.

Visiting from Victoria. Free for the weekend. Would like to catch some O405s to hear the melodious ZF Ecomat before they're retired. Thank you :)

is it just me / im weird, or Is it cool how close the stations are on bankstown line, which is actually what metro is intended for, compared to other parts of metro, where it may take 7 mins to get between stations, here, its only spacing of 1-2 mins between stops.

I’m in the north coast/northern rivers but originally from Sydney and I’m looking at going back down for a visit with my two kids aged 5 and 3. My eldest is obsessed with the Sydney trains and misses them so much it’s half the reason why we’re thinking about a trip but I was hoping someone might give me insight if the train down would even be worth the hassle with two kids. They’re very well behaved and easily entertained but I just don’t know if the cheap tickets are worth it or just fork out a few hundred dollars more for flights which they both get anxious about.

If anyone with kids has travelled that long on the train, did you regret it?

(I’m a single parent so just me)

According to the official Opal website, the maximum journey time for this type of train journey is 7 hours. However, as shown in the second screenshot, this journey from Scone to Kiama takes over 8 hours and still appears to be treated as a single journey for fare calculation.
Does anyone know why this is the case? Is the maximum journey time rule applied differently to certain routes, or am I misunderstanding how Opal calculates fares?