Re: Alice-Darwin Line

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

Yes that was my point exactly.

A couple of bulldozers and the odd bailey/pontoon
bridge will get road moving within a couple of days.

Nothing like that for rail.

....Tell


>Malcolm Purvis <malcolmpurvis@optushome.com.au> wrote:

> >>>>> "T" == T & J Jones <jonest@senet.com.au> writes:
> 
> T> Wouldn't the same theory [a smart bomb could knock out a bridge] be
> T> applicable for a road bridge or other critical point!
> 
> True, but as a general rule if a road bridge is knocked out it could be
> replaced with something that a truck could cross (however slowly) a lot faster
> than a rail bridge could.  You can't really have a train crawl down one river
> bank, cross a pontoon and go up the other side!
> 
> Malcolm