Re: Disused line permission

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>]

"Matthew Geier" <matthew@mail.usyd.edu.au> wrote in message
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> In article <3974029a@news.iprimus.com.au>,
> Sean <doctornick@iprimus.com.au> wrote:
> >Just a question about this line;
> >Do u have to get permission to walk along the disused lines at rope creek
or
> >can anyone access them?
> >
>
>  Presumably the line is still RAC property. The defence dept has totally
> pulled out havent they ?.

Not according to the local rags - someone was injured in an explosion about
6 months after DoD officillay withdrew from the site. So they were
presumably still there, but the Australian equivalent of the Official
Secrets Act says that they aren't (and if they are, we are not allowed to
know!)

>  RAC's first answer would be no anway, unless you know the right people
have
> have an appropialtly 'qualified' person (Track awareness certification) to
> supervise you.

Which is silly - the line is broken - a road crosses where the line used to
go, about half way betweem St. Marys and Dunheved. There is absolutely no
way that a train could get to the line without everyone knowing (i.e. by
truck).

Dave