Re: Ararat seeks public's view of planned rail restart

[The Narc <gonoNOCRAP@bigpond.net.au>]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2000 17:40:25 +1000, "James C"
<jamesccj@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
James overland is 115 KMH from Newport to Werribee not quite snails
pace
>Overland takes longer to reach Ararat then coach-rail connection and runs
>only 4 times weekly.
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>Maybe add more frequency on Overland say twice daily one day train and one
>night train, accelerate the train within Melbourne suburban as the train
>runs at snail pace between Spencer street and Werribee.
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>Cheers
>James
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>Mark Bau <markbau@altavista.com> wrote in message
>news:B5747248.11290%markbau@altavista.com...
>> I don't get it, if you live in Ararat and want to go to Melbourne there is
>> the Overland, (I assume it still takes passengers at Ararat)
>>
>> Why do they have their hearts set on the BG when they have a perfectly
>good
>> SG line to Melbourne. I can't imagine there would be very much loading
>> between Ararat and Ballarat, at least there wasn't when I was a fireman at
>> Ararat. There is no industry on this line, why on earth reopen it?
>>
>> They should be lobbying for a more user friendly timetabled SG train
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>> Mark
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Regards Paul Johnston (MNRC)