Re: Long haul distances

[rwilke@but.i.dont.like.spam.com.au (Roy Wilke)]

On Sat, 17 Jan 1998 13:41:26 GMT, telljb@ozemail.com.au (Terry Burton)
wrote:

>"David Bennetts" <davibenn@pcug.org.au> wrote:
>
>>> According to Train Journeys of the World, ...  It's
>>about 1500 km by road from Alice Springs to Darwin, so obviously a new line
>>wouldn't be cheap, there was some talk a few months ago about private
>>enterprise funding construction, supposedly Indonesian finance was involved
>>in part, but look what's happened to their currency just recently.
>>Regards
>>David Bennetts
>
>Not sure about Indonesian involvement, but the field
>has been narrowed down to 6 consortiums and I under-
>stand an announcement of the successful bidder will be
>made at the end of this month according to Northern
>Territory Government sources.

>If it fails this time, I doubt it will ever be built.

>Cheers

>----Tell
>Alice Springs NT

<pedant> That should have read "6 consortia" </pedant/>

The Indonesian connection, to the best of my knowledge, was Suharto's
daughter and her money.

Roy Wilke