• Over 500 letters and submissions, all advocating return of pax rail.

• the public meeting in Mildura was attended by over 10% of Mildura city's population which spilled into the street.


• Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/375410789024/

• Front page stories in the Sunraysia Daily, and below the many letters written in the local Sunraysia daily...all in the last year

If I ever need to go to Mildura; I'll fly...

"Over 500 letters and submissions"

So, over 500 people have submitted some sort of a demand to bring this train back? What's the population of Mildura? I not a politician, but I'm fairly certain 500 submissions is a laughable effort, unless those 500 people were to catch the train every day of the week...

How hard would it be for a freight operator to whack a couple of carriages on the Fruity and call it a mixed passenger-freight Mildura Express?

Horsham for example has no daily passenger train and there appears to be no local will to introduce a SG VLocity to co-ordinate at Ararat with BG, and Hugh Delahunty, local MP at Horsham is way too comfortable in his seat to be bothered rocking the boat.

Mike, just out of interest, prior to the Sunlight commencing in 1957, what passenger trains ran to Mildura?

Was Mildura ever serviced by a passenger train from Adelaide?  I have always wondered this?

Vinelander
So after 20 years of no train and not a chance in hell of there ever being a service to Mildura most normal people would stop banging on about their one trick pony pet project but not you it seems.

How many nursing home residents did it take to post that massive amount of 500 letters eh, or was it a work for the dole project to keep all the local ferals in winnie blues and woodstock cans.

Perhaps it was a letter writing project for all the islanders when they are not fruit picking then.

Whats Milduras population around 30.000 isnt it?
Then 500 letters is an amazingly small amount indeed but at least it kept the aged and ferals busy for an afternoon no doubt.

I like Black Hoppers' post.

Not a lot of fact, but some imaginative ideas about fraudulent letter writing. Makes me wonder how he knows of schemes like those.

• Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/375410789024/

And how do they expect others that are NOT on that certain site, to see what they want?

Can you at least post it here?

I admit that a niggling part of me has always wondered if it'd be possible to extend the Swan Hill line to Mildura, for the sake of being shown as a 'job building' exercise, while sating the residents of Mildura and allowing a 'simple' extension of an existing service. Particularly since the existing Swan Hill line has a relatively high speed. All of this, while standardizing the old line for additional freight benefits.

Of course, a more realistic part of me knows that this would never ever happen.

Was Mildura ever serviced by a passenger train from Adelaide?  I have always wondered this?

Vinelander
So after 20 years of no train and not a chance in hell of there ever being a service to Mildura most normal people would stop banging on about their one trick pony pet project but not you it seems.

How many nursing home residents did it take to post that massive amount of 500 letters eh, or was it a work for the dole project to keep all the local ferals in winnie blues and woodstock cans.

Perhaps it was a letter writing project for all the islanders when they are not fruit picking then.

Whats Milduras population around 30.000 isnt it?
Then 500 letters is an amazingly small amount indeed but at least it kept the aged and ferals busy for an afternoon no doubt.