Re: Coota-Tumut Line

["Ross (Goldie) Goldspink" <goldicom@powerup.com.au>]

The line was closed in '85 after a spectacular bushfire seriously damaged
track and culverts no far out of Coota (saw it happening from my
heligoflopper supporting the NSW bushfire mob).

"Ownership" or official status is unknown.

Would expect the Goulburn bridge to require major work - in fact it would
probably be a complete rebuild of the track and all civil works.

Goldie


Kosh Naranek wrote in message <392b00b6@dnews.tpgi.com.au>...
>
>deano <dsma@pigpond.com> wrote in message
>news:vxLW4.3059$c5.5092@newsfeeds.bigpond.com...
>> An article in the Wagga Local paper today about the possibility of the
>> reopening of the Coota-Tumut Line.
>> Apparently with the Visy Mill being built there ($400 Mill+) there is
>going
>> to be a need for some 60 B-doubles per day
>> to transport the product out of Tumut. The problem is the road is
absolute
>> crap and there is nothing that can be done to
>> improve the route it follows. It is bad in a car and torturuous in a
>truck.
>> There was some potential resistance due to the historic nature of one of
>the
>> bridges enroute by rail but apparently this is not likely to be a major
>> problem. What would it take to convince the powers that be?? I'd like to
>see
>> that.
>>
>It would be wonderful for excursions - all those sharp curves - the one
>visible coming into Gundagai on the Hume looks a great photo op with a 19
>class on the front
>
>How will it be for freight? Presumably the economics of log transport
>doesn't require straight, level, heavy track. Still what does it say in
>2000 - relaying on an alignment clearly substandard when it was built.
>
>
>
>