Re: Time Wasting Puzzle - Longest Broad Gauge Trip

[dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage)]

Chris Brownbill (cbrnbill@enternet.com.au) wrote:
> OK, only bother reading this if you've got some time to spare and a really good
> knowledge of Australia's broad gauge rail network through history.

> Imagine you are organizing a fan trip.  You have a broad gauge (1600mm) train,
> and gloriously, every broad gauge line that has ever existed is currently open
> and available for traffic (dream on).

> What is the longest possible route you can take without ever visiting the same
> place twice or retracing your route?

My SA history is fairly sketchy, so I don't know of any convoluted loops
out of Peterborough. I'm also a bit uncertain about the layout of Bendigo
and where the Kilmore line joined.

Peterborough - Adelaide - Pinaroo - Ouyen - Dunolly - Inglewood - North
Bendigo - Echuca - Toolamba - Seymour - Heathcote Junction - Kilmore -
Bendigo - Castlemaine - Maryborough - Ararat - Horsham - Balmoral -
Hamilton - Koroit - Geelong - Newport - South Kensington - Dynon Junction
- Tottenham Yard - Sunshine - Bacchus Marsh - Warrenheip - Gheringhap -
Cressy - Ballarat - Daylesford - Carlsruhe - Albion - Somerton - Upfield -
Spencer St - City Circle Loop - Flinders St - Fairfield - Oakleigh -
Traralgon - (Maffra?) - Orbost.

Calculating the distance covered is left as an excercise to the reader. :)

Cheers
David