>"doctor" <doctor@tpgi.com.au> wrote:
>>Just heard today a private rail freight line will be laid between Melb and
>>Darwin via Sheparton - Griffith ! Cost- only a couple of Billion hard
>>ones...WHY?, Wouldn't it be more sensible to link Alice to Darwin, and use
>>infustructure already in place? Go through Sheparton and Grifith if they
>>have to, but then why not then go via Broken hill?
>> However, I suppose there could be various mines allong the way?
>>- What do you think?
>The proposal has received a fair bit of airing up here
>in the Territory, and the idea actually goes back to
>the 19th Century would you believe.
>The costs would be astronomical and a Political mine
>field taking Native Title into consideration.
>Some lunatic has even suggested using the Queensland
>Rail network to connect the East Coast of Australia
>with Darwin. The old break of Gauge again until Qld.
>converts to Standard Gauge.!
That was no lunatic, that was, foremost amongst others, Harold Clapp.
Les Brown.