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Re: Re-opening of Mudgee line.
- Subject: Re: Re-opening of Mudgee line.
- From: pcc@ocean.com.au (Les Brown)
- Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 03:05:21 GMT
- Newsgroups: aus.rail
- Organization: Customer of Connect.com.au Pty. Ltd.
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dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage) wrote in aus.rail:
>Hang on, I may be thinking of another line. I think the bridge loss on
>the LVR was a washaway. There was some other bridge rumoured to have been
>burnt down by a truck driver to make sure the railway couldn't do any
>freight haulage.
>
So how did the truckies organise the washaway, David?
Maybe they have more "connections" with higher authorities than rail.
I would like to think we have progressed beyond the conspiracy
theories of the Titfield Thunderbolt kind.
Les Brown