Re: ABC News and the Overland >> the end is nigh.!

Tell (telljb@ozemail.com.au)
Mon, 30 Mar 1998 07:11:35 GMT

Craig Haber <albatross@harnessnet.com.au> wrote:
>There's a 1/2 page ad in the Melbourne Herald Sun today (Tues 31/1) from
>Great Southern:

Yes they also ran one in Saturday's Adelaide
Advertiser.

>BTW, check out the picture! A stretch of 'straight' track - timber
>sleepers, weeds, no ballast, dreadful surface and alignment, obviously
>it's a snap of the SG in Western Victoria :) Actually I'm not sure if
>it's just the printing, but the rails seem to pulled up beyond the
>middle-distance of the picture!

I thought it was a third rate US branch line. ;-)

>If GSR's campaigning helps get the track upgraded, then good luck to
>them, becuase that would benefit all interstate rail operators.

I think the photo was deliberate, they are trying to
tell "somebody" something.!

Cheers
----Tell