Re: Daytime Overland

[John Dennis <jdennis@acslink.net.au>]

In article <kFxE4.748$zV3.446517@news0.optus.net.au>,
dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage) wrote:
> Sam Eades (eadess@yahoo.com) won a Nobel Prize for literature by
writing:
>
> > Barry Campbell wrote:
>>> My geography of Victoria & SA is pretty rudimentary, but can
>>> anyone tell me what are the major towns between Melbourne and
>>> Adelaide. (Other than the ones that get a service from other
>>> trains, of course)
>> Ararat, Stawell, Horsham, Murtoa, Dimboola, Wolsely, Murray
Bridge...
> Also Tailem Bend.

A couple of unusual definitions of "major towns" here.  Tailem Bend has
1542 and Murtoa just 863 (according to my authoritative (?) "BP Explore
Australia" of 1991).  Wolseley doesn't even rate a mention (it is after
all merely an ex railway junction) but nearby Bordertown 2318.

JD
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