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Re: Alice-Darwin Line

Subject: Re: Alice-Darwin Line
From: dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage)
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 23:28:18 GMT
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Maurie Daly (mauried@tpg.com.au) wrote:
> As to the Defence argument, the Defence Dept in their submission to
> the initial feasability study for the line , indicated that they could
> see NO vital defence requirement for the line , but would use the line
> simply as a pure commercial customer , as they occasionally do for the
> existing rail network.

The main problem is that the big equipment (e.g. tanks) is oversize for
rail transport, and most of them are in Darwin anyway.

The second problem is that the two rapid deployment forces, the 1st and
3rd Brigades, are located in Darwin and Townsville respectively. If they
had to reinforce each other, there is no direct railway.

Cheers
David

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