Re: Mt Gambier

[telljb@ozemail.com.au (Terry Burton)]

Brian Evans <bevans@omni.com.au> wrote:
>I would expect V/Line and G&W to look at reguaging this line asap. I believe
>there was more than just a bit of freight on that line before it was cut off?
>Brian


What sort of freight Brian.?

Adelaide to Mount Gambier was doomed years ago, way
back when Webb's magnificent 600 class Pacific's were
still running.  (What a pity one of them did not
survive, just to show the young "experts" from NSW and
Vic what a real Pacific Loco was.) ;-)
  
The game was called road transport and the name was
Scott, this ambitious chap spelt the end of railways in
the South East of South Australia long before ANR took
over the old SAR, never mind the Road Coaches which
could get you down to the "Mount" quicker and cheaper
than rail.!
 
Problem was, ANR had to make all the hard decisions
like it did with all the other closed lines in SA, they
are still being shit-canned for it.  Interesting now to
speculate what would be left of the old SAR if Premier
Don Dunstan had not "sold" it to the Commonwealth.!
  
Me thinks the State with real problems would have
hardly been in a position to keep lines open that AN
closed.  ;-(

----Tell
Alice Springs NT