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Re: Alice Springs to Darwin line, but wait, there is more.!
- Subject: Re: Alice Springs to Darwin line, but wait, there is more.!
- From: telljb@OZozemail.com.au (< Tell >)
- Date: Sun, 03 Oct 1999 01:48:01 GMT
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- Newsgroups: aus.rail
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"John Wayman" <trecker@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> 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,
Not so John. The Northern Territory road trains can
move vast quantities of anything, faster and cheaper
than any 'proposed' rail link.
The road trains and the upgraded Stuart Highway are all
ready in place and grossly *underutilised*.
The Tarcoola to Alice Springs line is also grossly
underutilised. NRC now only run 5 days per week.!
----Terry Burton
Alice Springs NT
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