Re: Main western line victoria action

["Stuart Thyer" <s.thyer@anatomy.unimelb.edu.au>]

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In article <B562CDF2.10793%markbau@altavista.com>, Mark Bau
<markbau@altavista.com> wrote:


>Whilst Ingliston Bank may have been a factor in deciding where to put the
>Melb-Adelaide standard gauge it wasn't "the reason" it went through Cressy.
>Geelong, with its port and industry base would have been a bigger factor.

Yet no-one is yet to take advantage of this to form the basis of a second
loading point for SG freights. I haven't even heard a whisper that someone
might want to install siding facilities on the SG in Geelong, despite it
being a significant industrial area.


Stuart Thyer
Photographer
University of Melbourne