Re: NSW country rail lines upgrade

["David Virgo" <dvirgo@pcug.org.au>]

And back to the original post about what the funds were going to used for on
the Queanbeyan to Cooma line.

The money being put forward will almost certainly not go beyond Hume. This
is based on the advise from RAC to the ARHS(ACT) (last newsletter) that they
are resuming the line as far as Tuggeranong siding to facilitate log traffic
out of Hume.

This is quite apart from what we would all like to see happen as far as
reopening the line to Cooma and beyond.

The trackwork is cut in a few places on the Monaro Hwy and the cost of
replacing the crossings with structures that would be considered safe (level
crossings get bad press) and the cost of the replacing timber bridges at
Chakola and other crossings will kill the idea unless a lot of revenue is
garrenteed.

Not likely.



Garry Hoddinett <hoddos@netspace.net.au> wrote in message
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> David Bromage <dbromage@fang.omni.com.au> wrote in message
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> > Dave Proctor (daproc@spambait.umpires.com) wrote:
> > > > 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).
> >
> > Cooma is doable because it's only been closed for a decade or so.
Bombala
> > has been closed for too long to be worth opening in the short term.
> >
> > It is possible (although not probable) that Bombala could be reopened
some
> > time after Cooma.
> >
> > Cheers
> > David
> >
>
> To rebuild the railway from Michelago to Cooma the four crossings over the
> Monaro Highway to the south have to be rebuilt.  At all four locations the
> track has been bull dozed for at least 20 metres both sides of the highway
> and the warning lights have also been removed.  Further the highway has
been
> realigned so that instead of crossing the railway at close to the
> perpendicular it is now at a skew angle.  This may have some road safety
> implications if the railway is reinstated.  The bridge over the Numerella
> River at Chakola would also have to be repaired (I think the poor state of
> this bridge was the excuse for closing the line).  I went through this
area
> last week in a bus - sigh -  it just does not compare to the late lamented
> Cooma Mail!
>
>