Re: Gundagai - Last Use Of Line?

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

David Proctor wrote:

> 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!

Do the buses run past the dog on the tuckerbox?

No, don't answer that. I just recall stopping there almost every
Christmas holidays on the road trips my father made me endure as a child
driving from our home in Melbourne to and from the rellies in Brisbane.
The New England Highway. "On to Tenterfield" (and the next pub) as he'd
say after a few beers. Coonabarabran. I'm amazed I survived so much
drunken driving. Once he was so paralytic he even made me drive, and I
was about 14 and barely able to see above the steering wheel. At least
it was an automatic.

Urghhh. Thanks for reminding me!

David McLoughlin
Auckland New Zealand

Flight engineer: I don’t like this.
Captain: We’re 26 miles north, I’ll have to climb out of this.
GPWS: Whoop whoop! Pull up! Pull up!
Captain: Go round power, please.
Flight engineer: Five hundred feet.
GPWS: Whoop whoop! Pull up! Pull up!
Flight engineer: Four hundred.
GPWS: Whoop whoop------
End of tape.
-- The last moments of Air New Zealand flight TE 901 and its 257
passengers and crew, Mt Erebus, Antarctica, November 28 1979. Twenty
years ago this year.