Re: Vicrail rail closures

["Chris Brownbill" <cbrnbill@enternet.com.au>]

Rob Coventry <bobby@netspace.net.au> wrote in article
<34A99BF2.6532@netspace.net.au>...
> I am making up a series of maps showing the status of the Victorian
> Railways from 1854. Could anyone please give me any information or
> dates for the following:
> 
>
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> I don't have any dates for the closure of the following lines:

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> Ballarat Cattle Sdg	
> 
> Thanks in advance.
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> 
> 						ROB.
> 

I was in Ballarat the other day, and as far as I could see the Ballarat
Cattle siding line (Redan) was still open - at least the tracks through
Wendouree station site were shiny(ish) in contrast to the parallel former
main western line which is decidedly rusty.