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Re: Mildura Trains
- Subject: Re: Mildura Trains
- From: "Peter Berrett" <pberrett@optushome.com.au>
- Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 14:32:55 GMT
- Newsgroups: aus.rail
- Organization: @Home Network
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How about a histopric railway running Alexandra - Yea and then to Mansfield?
cheers Peter
"Keith Holley" <Mailman@netscape.net.au> wrote in message
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> On 13 May 2001 08:47:29 +0200, Paul Dwerryhouse
> <paul+usenet@dwerryhouse.com.au> wrote:
>
> >"Peter Berrett" <pberrett@optushome.com.au> writes:
> >
> >>Hasn't the rail line been torn up?
> >
> >Yep.
> >
> >--
> >Paul Dwerryhouse (paul@dwerryhouse.com.au)
> >Amsterdam, The Netherlands. <---- current location
> >Melbourne, Australia.
>
>
> There no way that line can be put back in unless someone is going to
> spend at lot of money. The road has been straighten in several
> places and lowered leaving the trackbed hight and dry plus you will
> have to fight the Rail to Trail people as well. The Cheviot Tunnel
> still has the rails layed, Mansfield Station has several section still
> in place as for rest it all gone. Around Cheviot you can drive along
> the track bed and if you are game drive through the tunnel.
>
> If any section that could be put back in it would be the Yea to
> Alexandra section
>
> Keith