Re: old lines

["Mark A Zanker" <zanker@bigpond.com>]

you are correct of course - what are some reasonable alternatives?
MAZ


"Werris Creek" <werriscreek@bigpond.com.au> wrote in message
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> Mark A Zanker wrote
> >I have a vaguely illegal enterprise in mind, but I need help to carry it
> >out.  There are many abandoned lines around this neck of the woods which
I
> >am interested in exploring to see what they were like, such as Gilmore to
> >Batlow, Cooma to Bombala, Cootamundra to Tumut, Wagga to Tumbarumba and I
> >know that in most instances, the tracks are still in place largely apart
> >from where they have been ripped up or covered over (former level
> >crossings), or fenced off.  To carry out the enterprise, I need a
fettlers
> >trolley, probably manually powered so I can go and have a look at these
> >tracks.  Is anyone interested in such an activity, which is a railway
> >archaeology project?  please contact me if so.  I am a little physically
> >disabled and probably couldn't do this by myself.
> >cheers
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> Mark
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> I suggest that you talk to some of the other persons that have tried this
> and ended up in hospital with serious injuries.
> What you suggest is not only illegal but extremely dangerous in many
> locations due to track removal, land movement and barbed wire across the
> tracks in many places.
> It is not as simple as you put it.
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