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

[krel4203@netconnect.com.au (Krel )]

On Sat, 08 Apr 2000 12:37:47 GMT, Michael Kurkowski
<mk@netstra.com.au> wrote:

>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.
>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 (:
>
151km.

Cheers

Krel


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