Re: Port of Geelong to get rail line upgrade

["Rod [comtrain]" <freight_man@hotmail.com>]

Maybe announced to you Graham, but Railworkers in Geelong, and The Wheat
Board were promised the connection prior to the SG opening through Geelong.
It was also mentioned positively in Parliament on a number occassions,
mainly to counter the negative attitude the Farmers displayed when they
learnt that everything from the West needed to go to Portland.
Rod
"Grahame Ferguson" <grahamef@users.mcmedia.com.au> wrote in message
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> Rod [comtrain] wrote in message
> <3b0a3e18$0$25489$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au>...
> >Just wondering how many times the Government are going to continue to
> >announce this upgrade.
> >If I am right it was promised two years before Freight Victoria took
over,
> >and half a dozen times since!
> >may be six more announcements to go, by then if we are lucky they wont
need
> >the wider gauge
> >Rod [comtrain]
> >"David Bromage" <dbromage@fang.omni.com.au> wrote in message
> >3B0A1597.2AFA8EAF@fang.omni.com.au">news:3B0A1597.2AFA8EAF@fang.omni.com.au...
> >> The State Government is spending nearly $2 million to help upgrade
[dual
> >> gauge - DB] a rail line into the Port of Geelong.
> >>
> >> http://www.abc.net.au/news/state/vic/archive/metvic-22may2001-26.htm
> >
> To standardise the Port of Geelong was announced by FA at the press
> conference with Jeff Kennett the day they won the bid for V/Line Freight.
>
> Regards,
> Grahame.
>
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