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Another Railway closes

youknowwho · 2013-06-26 12:49:27

Another railway closes although not on our shores. I rather enjoyed this anytime I visited. http://images.smh.com.au/file/2013/06/19/4503118/SydneyMonorail/

26-06-2013 12:49pm

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Another railway closes although not on our shores. I rather enjoyed this anytime I visited.

http://images.smh.com.au/file/2013/06/19/4503118/SydneyMonorail/

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#2 26-06-2013 3:13pm

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massive failure by the looksof it...opened 1988, council decides to remove 1991! Even the Lartique lasted longer!

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#3 26-06-2013 6:28pm

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I wonder did the writers of The Simpsons base the monorail episode on this?

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#4 26-06-2013 9:03pm

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mono...d'oh

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#5 26-06-2013 11:14pm

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An impressive website thereall the same.
Pity to see it close.

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#6 27-06-2013 1:44am

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Since it will allow the Light Rail network to be extended into the area it ain't all bad, no?

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#7 27-06-2013 7:05am

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Maybe Disneyland Paris would like it?

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#8 28-06-2013 4:48pm

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Looking at Wiki it seems a couple of other places in Oz have the same system. Could be just broken up for spares for those.

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#9 28-06-2013 9:37pm

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I have some tokens for this somewhere, not going to get to use them now...

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