>
>Considering the money spent by Australian National
>upgrading the Track from Crystal Brook to Broken Hill,
>I would doubt that any Politician would have the balls
>to close the Line.
>
>Then again, we did not have Politicians with the balls
>back in the eighty's to tell the East Coast States that
>there was already a "National" Rail operator who was
>more than capable of looking after the National Rail
>Network and so they formed another Political compromise
>called the National Rail Freight Corp.
>
>Unless Bob"We have turned the corner"Carr decides to
>kill his Rail connection to Broken Hill, I think the
>Crystal Brook-Broken Hill Line is pretty safe.
>
>Cheers
As lomng as the ore from Broken Hill has to get to Port Pirie, the line from 
Crystal Brook to Broken Hill is safe. 
I cannot say the same for the line east of Broken Hill. It may well get the 
chop.
BTW, is there still any ore traffic east from Broken Hill? I thought there was 
some a few years ago. If that has gone (or never was), then the line is 
probably doomed. Unfortunatly.
    Cheers,
    John McCallum
    e-mail address:  mccallum@melbpc.org.au
    Phone 03 9478 4254.         Member, Melbourne PC User Group.
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