Re: [VIC] Log Trains Now Running Out of Bairnsdale

[pcc@ocean.com.au (Brown Family)]

On Wed, 28 Jun 2000 21:36:01 +1000, "Nicholas Hurley"
<c.hurley@net-tech.com.au> wrote:

>Yesterday, (27/6/00) T392, T400 and T402 hauled the first log train
>consisting of about 30 wagons from Fenning's timber mill near Bosworth Road.
>Trains are still not going any closer than that to Bairnsdale Station. These
>trains are expected to run daily replacing the loading operation at Hillside
>which has now finnished. Also The Save Our Train Community Action Group and
>National Express has organised a public meeting on the 6th of July to
>announce the results of National Express' feasibility study into the
>resumption of passenger rail services returning to Bairnsdale. S.O.T.A.G.
>are expecting N.E. to announce the resuption of services to Bairnsdale at
>the public meeting.
>
Well, so T402, which was stored for so long at Bendigo, is now out and
about! Things must be looking up!

Peter Strachan of National Express did say that one of the things
taken into account in the design of their new country trains was the
possibility of re-opening of rail lines. (Track & Signal, April/May/
June 2000, page 28)

Indeed!!

Les Brown
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose.