There’s no right-of-way through Mount Gambier. The land has been gifted to the council.Read teh actual report would only re-open to East Mt Gambier Inter modal terminal.
https://www.lgfocus.com.au/editions/2017-04/converted-rail-trail-breathes-life-into-city.php
https://www.walkingsa.org.au/walk/find-a-place-to-walk/mount-gambier-rail-trail/
(Scroll down for photos.)
Agreed, but the discussion here was about connecting Millicent.
Yikes! You won't be able to reopen it. You'll have to build round it.
No one is going to pay for 15 - 20 km of new track south of the volcano. Using the Wolseley line, with reversing, is probably still possible but that would be prohibitively expensive as well.Otherwise there was a crazy number of level crossing through the Mount Gambier Urban Area, all that have been decommissioned and signaling equipment removed.
Here is a little tidbit about the Millicent Canola plant
https://www.graincentral.com/property/squib-buys-viterra-millicent-sites-for-expanding-canola-crush/
“We’re doing 30-40t per day at the moment.
“The intention is to go to 100t a day in seed.”
So, 365000 tonnes per year. Thats rail volume, both in and out...
That's 36500 tonnes per year or one train a month.