Re: what Gauge in Victoria?

Chris Brownbill (cbrnbill@enternet.com.au)
25 Oct 1997 09:43:52 GMT

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David Bromage <dbromage@metz.une.edu.au> wrote in article
<62s4vh$p36$4@gruvel.une.edu.au>...
> Chris Brownbill (cbrnbill@enternet.com.au) wrote:
> >The one of which I am thinking was a serious railway, and I'll give you
a
> >clue - its still open today (but its no longer 3'6").
>
> South Australian border to Serviceton. It was part of the SAR's SE narrow
> gauge division for a few months in 1886 before the broad gauge came
> through from Tailem Bend, and is now standard gauge. Wolseley to
> Serviceton is probably the world's only main line to have been three
> different gauges.
>
> Cheers
> David
>

You got it.

I didn't say that the Government which owned the line was the Victorian
government.

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