Re: Tenterfield railway to reopen?

[Bob <gioia@fastlink.com.au>]

David Bromage wrote:

> Derek Woodlands (kingpin@magna.com.au) wrote:
> >I've got my nephew down from Tenterfield for a while and he tells me
> >that there is talk in the town of reopening the railway line to
> >Armidale and running a steam service on it as a tourist attraction.
>
> There are two groups with an idea of running a tourist railway. One is the
> New England Railway who have ideas about Armidale to Glen Innes. This
> section is nominally still open, although nothing has run past Dumeresq
> for many years.
>
> The other group is based at Tenterfield and wants to run Tenterfield to
> Wallangarra as a tourist railway.
>
> Many bridges between Glen Innes and Wallangarra have been burnt by
> bushfires, so that isn't likely.
>
> >Anyone got a spare steam locomotive for them?  ;-)
>
> Dorrigo is only 90 mins by road from Armidale. There are a few locos there
> doing nothing. :)
>
> I doubt any of it will be a reality in the forseeable future.
>
> Cheers
> David
>
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> David Bromage                                        dbromage@metz.une.edu.au
> Division of Chemistry                        http://metz.une.edu.au/~dbromage
> School of Physical Sciences and Engineering
> University of New England
> Armidale, NSW 2351
> Australia

  A similar answer to that of 5711. We will see a man on Mars before a loco is
released from Dorrigo to some tin pot organisation that has no idea about running
steam or any other type of trains.
                                                        Bob