RE: Hope for passenger rail services in Western NSW

[James Shugg <jshugg@MailAndNews.com>]

>===== Original Message From "tony bailey" <mercuryworldtvl@one.net.au> =====
>Bourke? Is it still open? Or capable of being reopened?
>

I think the tracks are still there (as with most disused NSW lines), but 
they 
haven't been used for about a decade. I recall that the army blew up a 
section 
of embankment not far out of Nyngen during a period of extensive flooding, 
disconnecting Bourke from the rest of the rail system.

Actually, my recollection is that the Bourke railway was considered a 
mainline, not a branch. I'm sure others know more.

James

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