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Re: Fears Over Sale of Trams
- To: ausrail@railpage.org.au
- Subject: Re: Fears Over Sale of Trams
- From: David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>
- Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 13:44:57 +1100
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Bill Bolton wrote:
> The remaining Pacific Electric rail routes lines were sold to
> Metropolitan Coach Lines in 1953. MCL managed to abandon only two
> rail routes in its period of control from 1953 to 1958, one of which
> was a forced abandonment due to freeway construction by government
> authorities which cut across and partially obliterated the route of
> the rail line.
Sounds suspiciously like CityLink with the exception that Upfield re-opened. :-)
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David Johnson
CityRail Guard
trainman@ozemail.com.au
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~trainman/