Mark's Marvellous Map of Bendigo?

[steam4me@enternet.com.au (Yuri J Sos)]

Mark Bau1 wrote in another thread.......

> my spies tell me that plans are well in hand to allow up
> Swan Hill trains to turn right at Eaglehawk and then 
> left at Bridgewater bypassing Bendigo

Huh?
So a train from Swan Hill to Melbourne goes via Maryborough?  (Swan
Hill - Eaglehawk - Bridgewater - Inglewood (reverse) - Dunolly -
Maryborough - Ballarat - Melbourne).   Seems a hell of a detour to
bypass Bendigo.  Passengers and their trains won't like that detour.
Or is my grasp of central Victorian geography that far out?  I must
check your map again tonight, Mark <g!>.

> and for everything north of Echuca to run to Melb via
> Toolamba. The section Bendigo to Echuca (or Bendigo to Goornong) 
> will probably be closed

Irony.  Only 12 months ago, Echuca - Toolamba was pretty well
abandoned, steam passenger trains could only traverse the line "empty
cars" at 20-30 km/h.  Now they've replaced every fifth sleeper and
it's an 80km/h line.

So all Echuca - Melbourne passenger services are supposed to go via
Shepparton.

These two "proposals" would eliminate several passenger trains a day
from Bendigo...... this should really help the VLP sale price along.

       
Regards

Yuri
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