Re: [Melb] Old railway line

["Peter Berrett" <pberrett@optushome.com.au>]

Just imagime if the Alamein line still ran to join up with the Dandenong
line - all those Chaddie passengers. Perhaps there is a case to convert it
to light rail and then extend the line along roads and along to Chadstone.

cheers Peter

Bill Bolton <billboltonREMOVE-TO-EMAIL@computer.org> wrote in message
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> David McLoughlin <davemcl@NO***damned***SPAMiprolink.co.nz> wrote:
>
> > When did the Inner and Outer circle lines close?
>
> The whole length of the "Outer Circle" only existed for a relatively
> short time but was hopelessly uneconomic to operate.  It was closed
> and reopened once during its short life.
>
> The "circle" was certainly broken by early in the 20th Century.  Some
> parts of it persisted much longer, including the still extant service
> to Alamein, as separate branch lines and sidings.  Pretty much the
> whole infrastructure "south" of Alamein was abandoned early on and
> just left in place to rot for half a century, finally being scrapped
> in  the late 1950s.
>
> The ARHS Vic division published a book on it, a couple of decades ago,
> that has the whole sad history.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bill
>
>