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Re: Tenterfield railway to reopen?



Quite a bit of work in fact, since the RTA wiped out several hundred metres
of track two years or so back in order to replace a bridge over the line
(south of Glen Innes as I recall)

Derek Woodlands wrote in message <34bc4a17.795406@news.magna.com.au>...
>I've got my nephew down from Tenterfield for a while and he tells me
>that there is talk in the town of reopening the railway line to
>Armidale and running a steam service on it as a tourist attraction.
>
>I reckon it is a great idea, although I'd imagine a lot of work would
>have to be put into restoring the tracks.  It is a great run up there,
>I did it in an XPT back in the mid 1980's.