Re: Daytime Overland

[james_ccj@my-deja.com]

In article <8buq6d$rle$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
John Dennis <jdennis@acslink.net.au> wrote:
> In article <kFxE4.748$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
> --
> John Dennis
More patrons and train useage is more important then the actual town
population itself...I think.

--
Cheers
James


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