Re: Alice Springs to Darwin line, but wait, there is more.!

["Lineman" <sproul@dcsi.NOSPAMnet.au>]

Has any one raised the point in this thread that enemy action can easily put
a railway line out of action,over and over again for as long as the enemy
has missiles,just ask Slobadan.
Please don't drag vital war material into the quite sensible argument for a
railway line from Darwin to the eastern seaboard.
Lineman
John Wayman <trecker@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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> The strategic importance of a rail link to Darwin may get a boost, rail
> could have made it cheaper to transport vital war materiel to Darwin for
> shipping to East Timor,
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> Cheers
> John Wayman
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