Re: Rail traffic gets boost in `inland port' plan

["Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au>]

"Michael" <usenet.spam@gunzel.net> wrote in message
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> "B."
> > "James C."
> >> "William Pearce"
>
> >>> But there is still no sign of anything being done to provide
> >>> rail access to the container terminal at Webb dock,
>
> >> May have something to do with the cost....it would cost 50m$ to
> >> restore this line because of the Colonial Stadium block the
> >> original right of way.
>
> >So?  I think having a railway line straght down the middle of the
> >playing field would be great.  At least there would be something
> >interesting in Colonial Stadium for the first time ever...
>
> Just make sure the ballast doesn't die from the lack of sun. (:
>
> Say, whose idea was it exactly to ballast the Sydney airport line? Barking
> mad.

Yeah, I was surprised when I saw them doing that. Obviously cheaper in the
*short* term.