Re: Uncompleted Railways

[G.Lambert@unsw.edu.au (Geoff Lambert)]

"Chris Stratton" <stratton.chris.cp@nospam.bhp.com.au> wrote:

>Geoff Lambert <G.Lambert@unsw.edu.au> wrote in message
>>
>> * 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?
>--
The latter (of course).  I think about 1892, but perhaps 1898.  The
information about formation-making came from contemporary newspaper
reports, I have never seen any other reference, apart from a brief
mention in Blainey's "Peaks of Lyell".