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Re: DSRM is...
- Subject: Re: DSRM is...
- From: "keith malcolm" <kmalcolm@tpg.com.au>
- Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 15:58:45 +1000
- Newsgroups: aus.rail
- Organization: Customer of Telstra Big Pond Direct
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Trevor Edmonds <trevor_edmonds@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
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> The sleepers are also a problem. The line was re-sleepered just before it
> closed in 1972.
At this point in time then that is irrelevant. Timber sleepers only have an
average lifespan of 20 years. You would have had to resleeper the whole line
(to at least 1 in 4) not long after opening even with out the legal
problems.
Dave Malcolm