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Re: Tunnels

Chris Stratton wrote:

> Chris Stratton <stratton.chris.cp@nospam.bhp.com.au> wrote in message
> 7oavem$m8g107@atbhp.corpmel.bhp.com.au">news:7oavem$m8g107@atbhp.corpmel.bhp.com.au...
> >
> <snip>
>
> There is also the never used tunnel on the never built line from Gulgong to
> Maryvale.
> --

There is also the tunnel on the never-completed Dumbarton-Maldon line - at
around 4km long, it would have been the longest rail tunnel (AFAIK) in
Australia.
However, when I travelled from Moss Vale to Wollongong in 1993, I noticed an
excavator at the Dombarton end.

John
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