Re: (SA) SE Lines "could" be reopened...

["< Tell >" <telljb@netozemail.com.au>]

Arthur Marsh <marsh@ties.itu.ch> quoted and I have
snipped selectively:

>    The government says an investigation by Transport SA and the company
>    found that even if the government standardised the Wolseley to Mount
>    Gambier line at no cost to ASR, any service would still not be
>    commercially viable.


Thats how it was in SAR days, not commercially viable,
they knew it and so did AN, but the latter copped the
flack for closing it.

The Mount Gambier line like the Victor Harbor run took
the longest possible way around to get there.  
Both lines were dead meat for the trucks, buses and
cars after WW2.

----Terry Burton
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