Re: Uncompleted Railways

[billboltonREMOVE-TO-EMAIL@computer.org (Bill Bolton)]

"Garry Hoddinett" <hoddos@netspace.net.au> wrote:

> Can anyone give information on any railway were a SUBSTANTIAL start was made on construction but work stopped and consequently no track was laid? 

> Bradfield's Eastern Suburbs railway:
> Tunnels constructed from SE corner of Hyde Park through St. James to near Macquarie Place.

This doesn't fit either of your criteria of "SUBSTANTIAL" and "no
track was laid".

Only the minor lengths necessary to avoid disruption of the City
Circle if construction were continued later were ever constructed.....
and track was laid and used in a significant part of the section North
of St James.

Cheers,

Bill