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Re: Isolated Rail Lines

Subject: Re: Isolated Rail Lines
From: "Roderick Smith" <rodsmith@werple.net.au>
Date: 3 Jun 1999 08:30:37 GMT
Newsgroups: aus.rail, misc.transport.rail.australia-nz
Organization: Rail News Victoria
References: <e#pFgWCr#GA.55@nih2naae.prod2.compuserve.com>

Chris has found the fairly-short railway conveying bauxite into Weipa. 
AFAIK built in the 1960s.  It is still running.

-- 
Regards
Roderick Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

CJBrady <100340.673@CompuServe.COM> wrote in article 
> Looking at an Atlas of Oz. recently prior to planning a trip to 
> the Normanton and Croydon line in northern Queensland I noticed 
> that there are other isolated rail lines in other parts of the 
> country. 
> Specifically was in marked in the north east of Queensland - on 
> the coast - a long way north of Kurumba and Cairns. Does anyone 
> know anything about this. Was it a line for a coal mine or 
> whatever?

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