Re: Kadina-Bute railway line back on map

[Tell <telljb@ozemail.com.au>]

Yes, various SA Govs over the years turned their backs
on the "country" rail services.  I was over Kadina way
a while back, and the roads over there have been
absolutely hammered by the increase in trucks.

....Tell
 

>lbrown2@bigpond.com (Brown Family) wrote:
>
> With Pichi Rich, Mount Gambier, Victor Harbo(u)r and Wallaroo, what
> line in SA will be next? Why not preserve the ALL the railways in
> South Australia? There can't be that many left!
> 
> I can see it now. "South Australia Railways Preservation  Society".
> 
> I am sure this is the best, if not the only way, that SA railways get
> proper and decent funding. Why not make Diana Laidlaw,  madam-patron
> of whole system?
> 
> Can anyone think of a way to convince the SA Government that the Alice
> Springs-Darwin railway consortium is really run by a group of
> not-for-profit gunzels and retired railway people? Bet you $70 million
> appears in a flash. It's certainly far less threatening to the
> road-trucking lobby.
> 
> It makes me sick.............
> 
> Les Brown