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Subject: Re: ODD DESTINATIONS
From: G.Lambert@unsw.edu.au (Geoff Lambert)
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 00:46:11 GMT
Newsgroups: aus.rail
Organization: University of New South Wales
References: <Z%Da3.12489$PN5.32873@newsfeeds.bigpond.com> <376f04e2@nexus.comcen.com.au> <376F0FA5.B152824C@efs.mq.edu.au> <376F1824.9F919AFD@qimr.edu.au> <37703E2D.97541BE0@cdi.com.au> <37703FAA.13BD914B@qimr.edu.au> <3770A369.D394FFBF@melbpc.org.au> <81fc3.15055$PN5.38918@newsfeeds.bigpond.com>

"Ron BESDANSKY (formerly Ron BEST)" <ronbest@bigpond.com> wrote:

>> > > Then there is "Ellam" in the Mallee, in Victoria.
>> > > When the townspeople were choosing a name, someone decided the place
>was a bit
>> > > "backward", hence the name.

>Is it somewhere near Erewhon? (Answer's obvious)

It didn't have a railway station (but one was surveyed), but there is
a place called "Nowhere Else" in Tasmania:- right next to "Paradise"
and "Promised Land", all served by the Railton-Roland line.  Relgious
fundamentalists can be blamed for this and that's why Sir Joh lives
there now.

GL

References:
- ODD DESTINATIONS
  - From: "Ron BESDANSKY (formerly Ron BEST)" <ronbest@bigpond.com>
- Re: ODD DESTINATIONS
  - From: "Matthew Neil" <toyboy@syd.comcen.com.au>
- Re: ODD DESTINATIONS
  - From: Eddie Oliver <eoliver@efs.mq.edu.au>
- Re: ODD DESTINATIONS
  - From: Barry Campbell <barryC@qimr.edu.au>
- Re: ODD DESTINATIONS
  - From: John Cleverdon <johnc@cdi.com.au>
- Re: ODD DESTINATIONS
  - From: Barry Campbell <barryC@qimr.edu.au>
- Re: ODD DESTINATIONS
  - From: John Duncan McCallum <mccallum@melbpc.org.au>
- Re: ODD DESTINATIONS
  - From: "Ron BESDANSKY (formerly Ron BEST)" <ronbest@bigpond.com>

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