Re: V/Line Pass

["Lineman" <grime@sympac.NOSPAMcom.au>]

Exnarc <gwrly@netspace.net.au> wrote in message
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>
> > Right
> > now one side is kicking goals and they other side is a bit
> > short of star players. As you say the wheel will turn but my
> > guts tell me it will be a while yet.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > GT ( still discussing politics instead of railroads - I must
> > stop )
>
> But for whose side are they kicking the goals?
>
> Bob.
>
> Just as an aside,and possibly totally unrelated,however it does question
the building of State assets with the use of ever increasing amounts of
borrowed money from overseas.
I remember when the Wonthaggi[Vic] railway line had been long closed and we
where in the process of salvaging reusable equipment[which never got reused
because of a change of hierarchy who had it all loaded up and taken to
Melbourne for scrap a couple of years later] Any way one of the
administration staff from head office was sent down to organise every thing
which wasn't already organised and related to me that the Wonthaggi Line was
paid for by money borrowed from British financiers back in 1910c and here we
where in1986c still paying off the debt and that if the rails where sold
then the money would go to the said financiers.
Now I certainly can not attest to the veracity of that mans statement but it
sure stuck in my mind.

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"Lineman"
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