Edited 03 Aug 2013 14:09, 8 years ago, edited by ivahri

Sorry, I take an alternate view. What you are talking about is disused publicly owned land. There will never be trains on these lines again... stop kidding yourself & the rest of us. If rail ever returns to these regions they will under new alignments more suitably engineered for the 21st century.

I think government needs to better manage these assets for the benefit of the community. Leaving lines will nil, nadda, zilch prospect of reuse disused is just plain wrong. If you don't want rail trails then put your money where your mouth is & put your hand up to start restoring it... we all know that is not going to happen other than in a few, very limited localities. What is more practical- getting trains running at Zig Zag again or reopening the line from Gundagai to Tumut? Which one provides the community & the rail movement with more benefit? Zig Zag... every time. No-one would benefit from the rebuilding of the Gundagai rail bridge apart from a few who want to reminisce about 19th century bridges... The last alternative is for government to close these lines & sell the land to the neighbors... and frankly if you want to oppose rail trails this is the other alternative.

You can't save everything. Trying to do that only increases the risk that nothing gets saved. Save what we can well & the rest should be immortalised in video & still image.

Cheers

Richard

Edited 03 Aug 2013 10:34, 8 years ago, edited by ivahri

Sorry, I take an alternate view. What you are talking about is disused publicly owned land. There will never be trains on these lines again... stopped kidding yourself & the rest of us. If rail ever returns to these regions they will under new alignments more suitably engineered for the 21st century.

I think government needs to better manage these assets for the benefit of the community. Leaving lines will nil, nadda, zilch prospect of reuse disused is just plain wrong. If you don't want rail trails then put your money where your mouth is & put your hand up to start restoring it... we all know that is not going to happen other than in a few, very limited localities. What is more practical- getting trains running at Zig Zag again or reopening the line from Gundagai to Tumut? Which one provides the community & the rail movement with more benefit? Zig Zag... everytime. No-one would benefit from the rebuilding of the Gundagai rail bridge apart from a few who want to reminisce about 19th century bridges... The last alternative is for government to close these lines & sell the land to the neighbors... and frankly if you want to oppose rail trails this is the other alternative.

You can't save everything. Trying to do that only increases the risk that nothing gets saved. Save what we can well & the rest should be immortalised in video & still image.

Cheers

Richard