Re: [VIC] Standard Gauging

[James Brook <ajmbrook@ozemail.com.au>]

This is what I think will happen:

1. Standardise Mildura line and branches
2. Standardise Dunolly - Inglewood and then
   Kulwin / Robinvale lines. Close Inglewood - Bendigo.
3. Standardise Maryborough - Ballarat - Geelong.
4. Standardise Piangil - Bendigo - Castlemaine - Maryborough
                        or
   Leave Swan Hill line as broad gauge or close it and then
   close Castlemaine - Maryborough
5. Close Bendigo - Echuca or leave as BG.
6. Standardise NE and branches beyond Seymour.
7. Standardise Shepparton and branches.
8. Standardise Toolamba - Echuca then Moulamein and Deniliquin
9. Leave the following lines as BG:
    - Suburban network
    - Melb - Sale/Bairnsdale
    - Melb - Warrnambool
    - Melb - Ballarat
    - Melb - Bendigo
    - Melb - Seymour
    - Melb - Stony Point.

I might have left some little things out accidentally but
this general plan would allow almost all freight to be
standardised while leaving a limited Broad gauge country
passenger and suburban network. Any freight to Melbourne
would travel via the main western line (the new SG one,
ie: Melb - Geelong - Ararat) or the main north eastern
line.


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