Re: [NSW] Bomaderry - Nowra Extension

["Ted Gay" <tedgay@bigpond.com>]

"David Bennetts" <davibenn@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> "Jonathan Lau" <jonlau@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> > Would anyone have any info on the never completed Bomaderry - Nowra
> > extension?
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> Remember the grand plans for the nuclear power station on the shores of
> Jervis Bay, back in the early 70s I think.  There was supposed to be a
> railway connection across the river to the power station.  Some land was
> cleared for the site, but it never got off the ground.  I doubt very much
> that it would be viable to extend the track over the river into Nowra,
you'd
> be looking at many millions of dollars for a bridge.

WHY?  A bridge was built in 1879-81 across the Shoalhaven River at Nowra and
was intended for a railway to the South Coast!  OK so ever since it has been
used as a road bridge,  see pages 42 & 43 of Don Fraser's book ' Bridges
Down Under'

Ted
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> Regards
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> David Bennetts
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