Re: MUDGEE LINE

[jumboman@my-deja.com]

In article <83rceh$ecb$1@metro.ucc.usyd.edu.au>,
  matthew@mail.usyd.edu.au (Matthew Geier) wrote:
> In article <83qfc2$om8$1@lios.apana.org.au>,
> C. Dewick <craigd@lios.apana.org.au> wrote:
> >In <01bf4b10$d31e4700$463c65cb@dialup.ozemail.com.au> "RAILPH"
<phihel@one.net.au> writes:
> >
> >>Can anyone tell me what is happening to the between Mudgee & Kandos?
> >>because 9 weeks ago I was in Mudgee & I visited the station & saw
some
> >>steel sleepers in the yard plus I heard that they are repairing the
first
> >>bridge out of Mudgee.
> >
> >The line is being re-opened soon, following on from last Friday's re-
opening
> >of the line between Cowra and Blayney. It's pleasing to see
investment being
> >made in non-trunk cross-country lines since it's these lines which
serve as
> >important arterial routes in emergencies, etc. as well as giving
many 'new'
> >(meaning old but lost, as well as genuinely new) traffic
opportunities.
>
>  It will have absolutely nothing with logical investment in the
country
> rail network. Its that big 5 rings event in Sydney next year.
>
>  As soon as the partys over in Sydney and the through traffic can get
> past Homebush, those lines will go straight back into 'Services
suspended'
> status.
>
>  A month of superfrieghters will probably pound the track to bits
anyway,
> and shortly after services will be suspended on account of the track
being
> in poor condition again.
>
>  Of course if the track does survive there is small window where a
short-line
> operator might be able to get in and save the track for minimal cost.
>
> It will be only done to placate the whinging Narks,so they can belt
the crap out of the track with their "circus trains". But at the rate
they are crashing them,there won't be much left to run.
442.


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