UPDATE - Re: [Vic] Fast (160km/h) Train to country Vic.

["Steven Hurst" <hurste@primus.com.au>]

Just heard on the radio that work will begin in July - I assume this will be
the Ballarat Line, as this was the line they have been pushing as the
important one.

SO you had better get your photos of the line as is!

- Steve

Christopher_Martin GORDON <cmgord@ecr.mu.oz.au> wrote in message
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> Report in the Herald Sun today
> http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,2294,457470%255E1243,00.html
>
> The feasibility study into fast trains (160km/h) to Balarat, Geelong,
Bendigo
> and Traralgon has shown that it is "commercially viable".
>
> The government will put in $80 million and the rest of the money to come
> from the private sector.  Lets hope that something now happens and we get
> to see these trains (after all it is better then now even if is not
300km/h
> trains).
>
>
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