Re: AS to DAR, financial drain for next 50 years.

["Roderick Smith" <rodsmith@werple.net.au>]

He took a May 1901 editorial on the construction of the Trans Australian
line, and altered the dates.  The original was a copy of an item decrying
the building of Canadian Pacific.  In the intervening years, it was
translated into Russian to attack construction of the Trans Siberian
railway.

Right now, the big push in Asia to to complete more long-distance links,
and to reopen some closed by war:
* Complete the Iran link into Pakistan
* Fill in the gaps to connect Singapore to China, with a branch to Burma.
* Reopen the India - Bangladesh border, connecting to a new India - Nepal
line.
* Reopen Turkey - Iran and Turkey - Iraq (also establish an Iran - Turkey -
Syria service over existing tracks).

Way back in the Darwin debate, there was mention of large coal deposits at
Lake Phillipson, seen to be a potential source of fuel for Port Augusta
powerhouses.

-- 
Regards
Roderick Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

Tell <telljb@ozemail.com.au> wrote in article
<bh3nfto2hs30t9p19kcicn6jrc9eq9ler4@4ax.com>...
> An article in the Alice Springs News newspaper has
> Centralian Historian Dick Kimber describing the Alice
> to Darwin railway as a 19th Century solution to a 21st
> Century problem that does not exist.!
> He predicts the cost will blow out and the line will
> need taxpayer support for 50 years.