Re: Rail line preservation

["Chris Stratton" <stratton.chris.cp@nospam.bhp.com.au>]

Les Brown <pcc@ocean.com.au> wrote in message
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> If the Federal (Feral?) Government can waste $20 million restoring the
> long closed Queenstown-Strahan rail line that will NEVER much of a
> tourist attraction 'cause its too far from bloody anywhere, and will
> be far too expensive to run and maintain, then even a paltry (?), by
> comparison, 2 million would put the line over the freeway on a
> concrete viaduct. Imagine what $20 million would do between Bowser and
> Beechworth. Test track for a BG tilt train?
>
> Something is screwed up somewhere if they can find $20 mil for a
> tourist line that basically goes from nowhere to nowhere and yet more
> worthwhile railway preservation projects like Dorrigo and Healesville
> are languishing. It's gotta be pork-barrelling of the worst order.
>
> Les Brown

I think the tourist potential of any project, not just railway, on the west
coast of Tasmania would be far greater than anything in the Beechworth area.
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Regards,
Chris Stratton
Wollongong, NSW, Australia
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