Airport Central railway station is an underground Transperth commuter rail station at terminals one and two of Perth Airport in Western Australia. The station is located on the Airport line and is one of three stations that were built as part of the Forrestfield–Airport Link project, which consists of 8 kilometres (5 mi) of twin bored tunnels and three stations. Construction began in May 2017 following preparatory work. By January 2018, excavation was complete, and in May 2018 the two tunnel boring machines reached the station after tunnelling from High Wycombe. The machines left the station tunnelling north-west in July, and construction of the rest of the station started. A 280-metre (920 ft) elevated walkway was built linking the station to the airport's terminal one. Originally planned to open in 2020, the line and station officially opened on 9 October 2022. The journey to Perth station takes eighteen minutes.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1740:

European soldiers and Javanese collaborators massacred Chinese Indonesians in the port city of Batavia, modern-day Jakarta. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1740_Batavia_massacre

1888:

The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., at the time the world's tallest building, officially opened to the general public. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Monument

1952:

A footman shot and killed two colleagues and wounded the lady of the house at Knowsley Hall, England. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowsley_Hall_shootings

1986:

The Phantom of the Opera, a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and currently the longest-running Broadway show in history, opened in London's West End. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_of_the_Opera_%281986_musical%29

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

pith: 1. (botany) 2. The soft, spongy substance inside plant parts; specifically, the parenchyma in the centre of the roots and stems of many plants and trees. 3. The albedo (“whitish inner portion of the rind”) of a citrus fruit. 4. (by extension) 5. Senses relating to humans and animals. 6. The soft tissue inside a human or animal body or one of their organs; specifically, the spongy interior substance of a horn or the shaft of a feather. 7. Chiefly of animals: the soft tissue inside a spinal cord; the spinal marrow; also, the spinal cord itself. 8. (obsolete) Synonym of diploe (“the thin layer of soft, spongy, or cancellate tissue between the bone plates which constitute the skull”) 9. (obsolete, rare) The soft tissue of the brain. 10. (Ireland, Southern England, West Country) The soft inner portion of a loaf of bread. 11. (figurative) 12. The central or innermost part of something; the core, the heart. 13. The essential or vital part of something; the essence. Synonyms: crux, gist, heart, heart and soul, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, quintessence, soul, spirit, substance; see also Thesaurus:gist 14. Physical power or strength; force, might. 15. A quality of courage and endurance; backbone, mettle, spine. 16. The energy, force, or power of speech or writing; specifically, such force or power due to conciseness; punch, punchiness. 17. Chiefly in of (great) pith and moment: gravity, importance, substance, weight. 18. To render insensate or kill (an animal, especially cattle or a laboratory animal) by cutting, piercing, or otherwise destroying the spinal cord. 19. To extract the pith from (something or (figurative) someone). [...] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pith

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

To everything in this world there comes an end; there even comes an end to the torments suffered in those intermediate states of transition when the last secret tear of one's soul is bitterly swallowed, and the crisis passes, resolving itself into some new sort of phase, which even as it comes into existence is fated in turn to pass away, to disappear in the eternal changing of the times and seasons.   --Nikolai Bukharin https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nikolai_Bukharin