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Re: Trams for Canberra?
- To: ausrail@railpage.org.au
- Subject: Re: Trams for Canberra?
- From: Scott Ratcliff <scottr@uq.net.au>
- Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 11:35:20 +1100
- Newsgroups: aus.rail
- Organization: University of Queensland
- References: <01bd3414$eb2fa380$594c0acb@davibenn.pcug.org.au>
Another tram proposal in Canberra. Gee must be a local govt. election
in the wind.
David Bennetts wrote:
>
> Once again, a plan for putting in a tram system has been proposed for
> Canberra, this time in conjunction with a plan for 'revitalising' the Civic
> (downtown) area. It is envisaged the tram system would link the new yet to
> be built National Museum (on the Acton pensinsula where the hospital was
> imploded) with Civic, and also serve the Australian National University, so
> would be a rather short line, probably about 3km or so in length. For
> rollingstock, it was proposed to use withdrawn Melbourne W class cars now
> in storage.
>
> David Bennetts
> Canberra
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