Re: Alice to Darwin Line
Garry R. Ford (NOSPAMgarry"@NOSPAMmerddyn.apana.org.au)
Sat, 09 Aug 1997 17:45:06 +1000
Garry R. Ford wrote:
>
> Maurie Daly wrote:
> >
> > In article <5r7qnd$818@proxy5.proxy.ozemail.net> telljb@ozemail.com.au (Terry Burton) writes:
> > >From: telljb@ozemail.com.au (Terry Burton)
> > >Subject: Re: Alice to Darwin Line
> > >Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 15:02:09 GMT
>
> > >The Dream is, Darwin will become the Container Port for
> > >Australia with double stack Trains spearing off West at
> > >Tarcoola, East at Crystal Brook and South to Adelaide.
>
> There is nothing wrong with the dream of Darwin as the chief container
> port for Australia to the nother, just the routing of the line.
>
> No governmernt or private company in their right mind will ever build a
> line from Alice Springs to Darwin if they want to make it even remotely
> make money, despite the promise made to the then Colony of South
> Australia. The only city to benefit would be Adelaide.
>
> The logical choice is from Melbourne to Darwin via Western New South
> Wales, Queensland, Mount Isa and Darwin. Then you get viable two way
> traffic with exports and imports. A private company led by Everald
> Compton and several other leading figures is currently doing the
> feasibility study prior to commencing building the 12 billion dollar
> project which has been tauted since the 1870's via Queensland. This
> serves 90% of the population areas of Australia and aklmost all of its
> productive land.
>
> They have already ruled out the Alice line as a toy railway, which is
> all it would ever be.
>
> People should be forgetting the Alice line and devoting their energies
> to supporting the only real railway feasible.
>
> Cheers
> Garry Ford
> Chairman
> Brisbane Transport Researcg Group
>
> P.S.
> It will also incorporate a gas pipeline and run gas powered locos.