Three police officers in vests walk along the gravel beside train tracks below a station platform where a small crowd of commuters stands watching. — Picture: @chantheman03

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Three Coppers Walk The Gravel Beside Strathfield Platform While A Dozen Commuters Give It Their Full Attention And Nobody Looks At The Timetable

7 November 2026, 12:30 pmOn The Boom

STRATHFIELD STATION — Gravel, steel rail and three police in vests, walking slowly where no commuter is ever meant to stand. On the platform above them, a dozen people have stopped doing the one thing they came to do, which is wait for a train, and started doing the only job…

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Three Coppers Walk The Gravel Beside Strathfield Platform While A Dozen Commuters Give It Their Full Attention And Nobody Looks At The Timetable

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