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kuldalai
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Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2003 5:53 pm
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For years a guy called Crompton has been promoting an inland railway to run initially from Melbourne via Cootmundra, then various inland NSW lines (upgraded), plus a few bits of new construction in NSW, then crossing into Queensland at Goondawindi and on through Ipswich to Brisbane. (Stage 2 run via Goulburn Valley & Tocumwal and re-open Tocumwal - whereever line (currently rotting away). Just before last election PM and Tim Fischer were cockahoot for the scheme, and first sod was turned at Goondawindi for bridge across some river ; and she was a goer funded by Macquarie Bank.
Last year or so deathly silence, is anything happening or was it just an election stunt. ?
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mjja
Sir Nigel Gresley
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Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2003 8:22 pm
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Is this the same as the Australian Inland Rail Expressway? I think there was an article in Newsrail a while back saying someone with the $$ had backed out and so it was cancelled.
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KngtRider
Chief Commissioner
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Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2003 9:38 pm
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Can you say VFT ?
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trainfreak
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Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 9:48 am
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VFT? 
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michaelgreenhill
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Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 3:10 pm
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The VFT is another totally seperate project to this one. 
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KngtRider
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Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 4:11 pm
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| michaelgreenhill wrote: | | The VFT is another totally seperate project to this one. |
No you both misread it.
VFT mark 1 never happened
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mjja
Sir Nigel Gresley
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Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 6:43 pm
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Somehow I lost the plot - how did the VFT get into this?
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michaelgreenhill
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Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 9:13 pm
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Beats me 
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awsgc24
Minister for Railways
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Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2003 2:32 pm
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On 23 Jan 2003, the Federal Minister for Transport John Anderson announced another grant of $250,000 to do a study of the last leg of the Inland Route to Tennant Creek. This makes $850,000 worth of grants.
Clearly the project does have at least a little life in it.
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mjja
Sir Nigel Gresley
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Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2003 4:01 pm
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It sure would be good to have a better way to get from Melbourne to Brisbane than the current route. It might even be possible to run diesel tilt trains on the route overnight...
Happy Gunzelling and remember, "Go by rail!"
Michael Angelico
President, Smart Passengers Inc
(My opinions are my own unless specifically stated.)
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kuldalai
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Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2003 9:24 pm
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Clearly the thing is going nowhere fast. Apparently the sod turning ceremony to build a rail bridge for the railway at Goondawindi during the last Federal election campaign was just a PR stunt to try and get a few votes from the mystical "bush". If the thing cannot get off the ground by the simple expedient of upgrading some inland lines in NSW and building 100 ks or so of new tracks then it is really struggling . Andersen loves giving money for studies on this project as it gives him brownie points and photo opportunities for sod turning ceremonies ahead of elections, but as soon as the media circus moves on nothing really is happening.
What Andersen should be doing in conjunction with State Governments of NSW, Vic and Queensland is cost benefit analysis of upgrading the two alternative Melbourne - Brisbane rail freight routes; (i) the traditional coastal route and (ii) the inland route. Then getting stuck into it and upgarding the most cost effective option. all this is hopeless though so long as NSW refuses to hand over Interstate tracks to ARTC.
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awsgc24
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Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2003 6:44 pm
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The AIRE website has just been "updated" and it now claims that stage 1 (Melbourne to Gladstone/Brisbane) will by open by 2004.
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kuldalai
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Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2003 5:39 pm
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And pigs might fly !!!!!
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chrisr001
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Nexas
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Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2003 6:35 pm
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I wouldn't mind the Flying Scotsman 
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