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Re: Main western line victoria action
- Subject: Re: Main western line victoria action
- From: James Brook <ajmbrook@ozemail.com.au>
- Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 14:09:35 +1000
- Distribution: world
- Newsgroups: aus.rail
- Organization: Victorian Railfan Web Site - http://www.railpage.org.au/vr/
- References: <MIPZ4.61$jJ5.5369876@news.interact.net.au>
- Xref: bclass.spectrum.com.au aus.rail:11661
Mark wrote:
>
> Where have all the big diesel freights gone, living in the country west of
> vic i remeber years ago the big C,S,B,G,X,T etc diesels climbing islington
> bank etc.
> all we get now is passenger action etc.
> anyone know of reason or is freight on this line non existent now.
> mark.
When the Melbourne - Adelaide line was converted to SG, they chose the
pleurisy plains route instead of the more direct Ballarat route. Now all
the Adelaide goods traffic goes via Geelong and Cressy.
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