Re: Kadina-Bute railway line back on map

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

What bothers me with the demolition of SA "country"
services is the fact that the various SA governments
were well and truly informed by ANR/AN that they would
"discontinue" certain South Australian services.

Easy to say now I guess, but had the various SA
governments had even half a clue, they would have
contributed to AN keeping these lines open.
 
Then again, the SA government went along to the great
"transport" gabfests which formed National Rail Corp
under federal Labor and demolished the South Australian
based AN.

....Tell


>Neil Waller <waller@picknowl.com.au> wrote:
> 
> I was up that way just after Christmas.    I went via Snowtown to see
> what was going on there as far as the new grain silos were concerned
> then went down to Wallaroo through Barunga Gap.
> 
> The line is substantially intact but 20 years out of use.
> 
> What amazed me were the huge number of semis coming the other way
> carrying grain from Wallaroo to the new Snowtown silos for transhipping
> to rail.
> 
> Why?   Why was the railway service stopped to a grain port in the first
> place?
> 
> And that day (26th december) saw the first train to Bute by the YPRPS.
> 
> Cheers
> Neil Waller