Re: [vic]Leongatha rail service review (gov annncmnt)

[Michael Kurkowski <mk@netstra.com.au>]

Yuri said in message <44tles4rpvpi1j56aodmbojr1btqrrp07f@4ax.com>, I
therefore quote: 

>Are you calling the Western SG line a scrap heap?  'cos IIRC that's
>where a lot of the rail from Barrys Beach - Leongatha went.

Debateable. I personally would be happy to see either all standard, or all 
broad, but neither will ever happen. 

Standardisation out west had a more dire social impact, as that literally 
killed any hope of easily getting a pass service out to Dimboola. For that, 
I would have preferred to see at least dual guage to Dimboola. Interstate 
stuff could have gone through fine, and we wouldn't have had a broken 
system (at the moment at least grain is broken up into both broad and 
standard guage, as is a lot of other goods).

What is the track distance from Ararat to Dimboola btw? There might still 
be hope (:

Regards

Michael


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