Re: Cairns suburban rail??!

[David McLoughlin <davemcl@REMOVEiprolink.co.nz>]

Colin Weaver wrote:

> If this proposal ever results in anything (fat chance!), it may be reasonable
> to expect similar moves in Townsville and Rockhampton, both of which
> supported suburban services up to the 1960s (Rockhampton even had trams
> once).


Steam ones, no less! They lasted until 1939, which would have made them
one of the last remaining steam tramway systems anywhere.

David McLoughlin
Auckland New Zealand

"And Lucifer looked down upon the world and beheld the destruction God
had wrought, and he wept."
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