Re: [Aust wide] Everyone in aus.rail

[Chris Brownbill <cbrnbill@enternet.com.au>]

Was there also a line to the proposed Chowilla Dam - or was that just a proposal
which never actually came to fruition?  There was an article in Bulletin a few
years back.


Arthur Marsh wrote:
> 
> "Chris Brownbill" <cbrnbill@enternet.com.au> wrote in message
> 39E1C618.D04E6C43@enternet.com.au">news:39E1C618.D04E6C43@enternet.com.au...
> > Geez that's a gazzetteer!  So what's your problem with the Merriton to
> Port
> > Pirie BG line?
> 
> I forgot to include that, and Woodville-Finsbury-Rosewater.
> 
> > How about Government Gums to Leigh Creek?  Mile End to
> > Showgrounds?  Surely Marree to the Alice?  Woomera?  North Terrace
> Showgrounds?
> > Murray Bridge Port.
> 
> Maree to Alice was interesting, but I didn't like the idea of a line that
> had to be rebuilt after every flood.
> 
> I should have included Woomera and Murray Bridge Port.
> 
> I also didn't include Middleton-Currency Creek (1885), Glenelg-Marino
> (1880-1881).
> 
> For tramways, most of the Adelaide trams removed in 1958 and the
> Lakeview-Mundoora-Port Broughton tram line are missed.
> 
> Finally, the only *re-opened after track pulled up* section I know of in SA,
> Victor Harbour - Granite Island is a great reminder that sometimes a line
> can be rebuilt.
> 
> In NSW, who could forget the line running north from Broken Hill which
> included the site of the "Turks' last stand"?
> 
> >
> >
> > Arthur Marsh wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > > > Which closed line(s) do you missed the most?
> > >
> > > Just about all in SA:
> > >
> > > Willunga, Milang, Mount Pleasant, Robertstown, Morgan, Waikerie,
> > > Cambrai/Sedan, Yinkanie, Barmera, Peebinga, Kingston SE, Mount Gambier,
> > > Glencoe West, Beachport, Port Hughes via Paskerville, Spalding,
> Penfield,
> > > Truro, Hendon, Semaphore, Northfield, Outer Harbor balloon loop, Grange
> old
> > > station-Henley Beach, Glenelg, Lochiel, Radium Hill, Quorn-Hawker, Leigh
> > > Creek-Maree, Wilmington, Quorn-Orroroo, Bowmans-Balaklava-Gladstone,
> Coffin
> > > Bay, Kapinnie-Mount Hope,
> > >
> > > and most interstate lines that I have seen or heard about.
> > >
> > > Arthur.