Re: Webb Dock Rail Access -oops we need a new bridge!!!

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

In article <377976A8.FECC1774@nmit.vic.edu.au> david <david@nmit.vic.edu.au> writes:
>From: david <david@nmit.vic.edu.au>
>Subject: Re: Webb Dock Rail Access -oops we need a new bridge!!!
>Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 11:45:13 +1000

>Good Post there,

>There was a segment on 3LO this morning - and a planner  who knew nothing
>about rail.
>She  thought CITILINK should have planned for it - as if a road concern is
>going to give and quarter to another from of transport ! She thought the
>bridge should have had rail on it like the coat hanger in Sydney - imagine
>the grades !

>It also sound as if  the private operators know what they want in
>efficiant intermodal connections, unlike the Webb dock line and all it's
>use !


Does any of the original line still exist.?
Pretty sure that the last time I went over the West gate Bridge I could see 
bits of an unused rail line on the Northern Side , although it didnt appear to 
be dual guage.
Was the line actually regularily used when it was built.?


thanks
MD