Re: Cooma cessation

["David Bennetts" <davibenn@pcug.org.au>]

David Bromage wrote in message <79gj28$2ao$10@news.mel.aone.net.au>...
>David Bromage (dbromage@fang.omni.com.au) wrote:
>> Roderick Smith (rodsmith@werple.net.au) wrote:
>> > In reporting the commencement of tourist services from Cooma at the end
of
>> > 1998, somebody claimed that this was a decade after the cessation of
>> > scheduled passenger services.  Should this have been two decades?  When
was
>> > the last scheduled passenger service to Cooma?
>
>> The Canberra Monaro Express and Cooma Mail were still running in 1984.
>
>And the Monaro was still running in 1988.
>
>Cheers
>David


To be precise, the last scheduled passenger train from Cooma was on 26
November 1988 - a DEB set.  There's a photo in Ian Robertson's booklet
'Rails to Cooma'.  The RTM and ARHS ACT ran the final train to Cooma in the
following year for the centenary, by then the bridge across the Numeralla
River had been condemned and passengers had to be bussed between Bredbo and
Chakola, where the loop had to be specially re-instated for three return
trips for the Cooma public.  The points were unspiked and a crow bar was
used, in conjunction with a points clip.

Regards


David Bennetts
Canberra