Re: [Vic] Geelong Line CLOSED

["Arthur Marsh" <mars0177@flinders.edu.au>]

"John Dennis" <jdennis@acslink.net.au> wrote in message
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> In article <39E2EB29.D1B71415@VICSIG.alphalink.com.au>,
>   remove VICSIG <> wrote:
> >
> > You can run via Broken Hill (take an extra day, but it is better than
> > waiting for a week or more)
> >
> >> The sooner the whole Victorian network is converted to SG the
> >> better.
> >
> > Yes, but if you look at what is planned cutting the Melbourne -
> > Geelong part would have still blocked the line.
>
> While it is easy for us to look at the Victorian network and bemoan the
> loss of alternative routing - trains from Adelaide could have been
> detoured via Ballarat, or even Maryborough and Castlemaine, we should
> also consider the other end of the line.
>
> A similar accident a similar distance from Adelaide would have crippled
> Melbourne-Adelaide services even at the height of the rail network.
> There was no alternative into Adelaide beyond Tailem Bend, other than
> via Broken Hill, and what fun that would have been - involving
> three changes of gauge and three changes of operator.

Fooey. I recall an Overland being routed via Mount Gambier and Heywood in
the SAR days...

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