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Re: Overhead wires restored to Goods lines??



If they hooked the once used roller coaster at Luna Park  to the car sidings
via one of those gauge converters that people have been talking about
recently (Moree Extension) it would be a ride no-one would forget.

Ben Staples

Matthew Geier wrote in message <6mv2n9$80d$1@metro.usyd.edu.au>...
>daproc@bigfoot.com writes:
>
>>In article <35911481.9544314D@ozemail.com.au>,
>>  trainman@ozemail.com.au wrote:
>
>>> Chances are that North Sydney Car Sidings will be closed, and the
>>> land sold off.
>
>>So CityRail has finally realised that it has some prime harbour real
estate
>>worth many, MANY millions of dollars! Once again, money gets in the way of
>>things - you can bet your life the money from the sale will go into
>>consolidated revenue, and the railways wont see a cent of it.
>
> I rather doubt that the government would get to sell it. Most of the
>sidings would get turned into Park Land. Any attempt to sell it for
>development would attract a major outcry.
> Most of the rest of the alignment is probably unsuitable for selling on
>its own, it would only be worth something to ajoining land holdings.
>
>