Re: [Aust wide] Everyone in aus.rail

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

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.
> 

What about the Port Adelaide electric tramways.  Then there's all the Adelaide
horse tramways, and not forgetting the Gawler station to Gawler town tramway!

When you look at it like this - SA has lost way more in relative terms than
anywhere else in the country, and what remains is under more of a cloud than in
other States - busway rumours etc.


> 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.
> 

Wasn't part of the Willunga line reopened south of Hallett Cove when the 'new'
line was opened to Christie Downs?  Also what about Pichi Richi from Woolshed
Flat to Saltia and Stirling North!  Were these pulled up or simply left unused?

> In NSW, who could forget the line running north from Broken Hill which
> included the site of the "Turks' last stand"?
> 

Do you mean the Tarrawingee tramway or was that on the Silverton tramway
mainline?