Re: NSW country rail lines upgrade

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@sd5.mailbank.com>]

David Bromage <dbromage@fang.omni.com.au> wrote in message
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> David Virgo (dvirgo@pcug.org.au) wrote:
>
> > Jonathan Lau <jonlau@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
> > > Yesterday's (22/10) Daily Telegraph had an article about 4 new country
> > > rail projects in NSW. $ 3 Million have been allocated for:
> > >
> > > - Reopening of a key section of the Moree-Inverell Line.
> > > - Major upgrades of Cooma-Queanbeyan line.
> > > - Major upgrades of north western wheat lines.
> > > - Extended crossing loop at Emerald Hill near Gunnedah.
>
> > On the Cooma-Queanbeyan line, the work is likely to be extend only as
far as
> > Hume (timber yards & possible container traffic).
>
> > It's really false advertising to refer to the line as the
Cooma-Queanbeyan
> > line.
>
> No it's not. Logs are being hauled by road from Bombala to Pt Kembla for
> export. If you reopen the line, you can tranship at Cooma.

Why not reopen all the way to Bombala then, and save trans-shipment costs?
Is the formation in good enough nick to do this? (Don't worry, I am enough
of a realist to know it will never happen - Bombala, that is).

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