Re: Waverley train line (was: Rugby League Surpasses AFL)

["WhaleOilBeefHooked" <daproc@sd5.mailbank.com>]

Why remove the cross post? There was a workable thread going in
aus.sport.aussie-rules concerning the differences in transport access
between Arctic Park (oops, I mean Waverley) and Stadium Australia - it would
have been interesting to keep it there for a while.

DaveP

Christopher_Martin GORDON <cmgord@ecr.mu.oz.au> wrote in message
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> : > If Waverley had had a branch line built to service it (like Flemington
> : > Racecourse) with a station right next to it, it would have been far
more
> : > successful.
>
> : The Flemington Racecourse line was far more attractive to build in its
day
> : (than Waverly today), as it services both the Royal Melbourne
Showgrounds
> : and Flemington Racecourse.  Also, during the course of its existance, it
> : played a massive freight role, with sidings plastered on all sides of it
for
> : at least half its length.  (most for cattle)  Now if there were
something
> : like that out at waverly too, that the line could service, maybe the
line
> : would have been built.
>
> It would have been a daily service becuase it would have servied Monash
> University.
>
> Also what else would have been built at Waverley if there was a train?
> (maybe the showgrounds would have moved like Sydney, after all where
> the showgrounds now is prime land)
>
>
>
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