Re: Uncompleted Railways

["Chris Stratton" <stratton.chris.cp@nospam.bhp.com.au>]

Geoff Lambert <G.Lambert@unsw.edu.au> wrote in message
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> "Garry Hoddinett" <hoddos@netspace.net.au> wrote:
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> >Can anyone give information on any railway were a SUBSTANTIAL start was =
> >made on construction but work stopped and consequently no track was =
> >laid?
>
>
> >Are there any others?  Any similar "railways" in other states?
>
> In Tasmania, you could probably count the following:
>
> * Great Western Railway, which was to have run from the Derwent Valley
> to Mt Lyell.  Fully surveyed and some construction work went on and a
> formation made at the eastern end in the 1990s.  Then the company (an
> English one) went bust and it all folded up.
<snip>

Was this really in the 1990s, or did you mean 1890s?
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Regards,
Chris Stratton
Wollongong, NSW, Australia
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