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Re: [VIC] Echuca port
- Subject: Re: [VIC] Echuca port
- From: lbrown2@bigpond.com (Brown Family)
- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 15:39:56 GMT
- Newsgroups: aus.rail
- Organization: BigPond Internet Services (http://www.bigpond.net.au)
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On Wed, 14 Mar 2001 13:14:01 +1100, "Michael Wierzbinski"
<wizzer1865@NOSPAMoptusnet.com.au> wrote:
>Out of interest, when was the POE line closed and pulled up.
>
Closed in 1966, pulled up in 1967.
There was a story that the Queen used the line to arrive at the Echuca
Civic Centre on her first visit in 1954. There was a platform built
there specially for her. Can someone confirm this please?
Les Brown