Re: Gundagai - Last Use Of Line?

[mauried@commslab.gov.au (Maurie Daly)]

In article <76n0sg$km$1@reader1.reader.news.ozemail.net> "David Proctor" <daproc.spambait@umpires.com> writes:
>From: "David Proctor" <daproc.spambait@umpires.com>
>Subject: Re: Gundagai - Last Use Of Line?
>Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 16:56:41 +1100

>David wrote in message <1gDj2.2$0g1.166@nsw.nnrp.telstra.net>...

>>Thanks for a fast reply (have now fixed my name in the new reader here). Do
>>you have any idea when the line was last used at all?

>I believe that the passenger services were replaced by buses (oops, luxury
>co-ordinated road coaches) in the late 1980's (could have been 1986, but I
>am not sure) - not sure about freight!

>DaveP
>http://derek.jenkins.net/ozemail/index.html

I cant comment on when the last freight actually ran , but in 1978 there were 
4 freights per week in both directions from Coota to Tumut , with a 
conditional freight from Tumut to Batlow 3 times per week.
There were 2 rail motor services per day on weekdays in both directions , 
usually CPHs .

MD