Alice/Darwin Rail, Web site update.

["< Tell >" <telljb@ozemail.com.au>]

For those who may be interested, there are now two
updated web sites for further information on this
project, they are linked.

AustralAsia Railway Corporation.
http://www.nt.gov.au/aarc/

NT Government "The Railway"
http://www.nt.gov.au/railway/index.shtml

Some brief points:-

The project will "act as boost to the transport
industry as supplies and materials are transported to
the construction centres in Tennant Creek & Katherine"!

Construction is expected to begin mid 2000.

Construction will take place on FOUR fronts, north &
south of Tennant Creek and Katherine.

Tracklaying is scheduled for 2001 with track machines
operating from Tennant Creek and Katherine. 

Check the background photos on AARC's Site Map, they
are all American and one looks suspiciously like the
Cass Scenic Railroad in the good old USA.  The Home
page has what appears to be a DL in NR colours.

Yoiks Boris, someone has posted an Aussie train photo
on this big Australian project.!

----Terry Burton
Alice Springs NT