STRAIGHT RAILWAY STRETCHES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2836, 29 July 1916, Page 3

STRAIGHT RAILWAY STRETCHES

ir Sir f" T , n yo,u ' " L ° c »l aud General" of iionday s issue was a. paragraph relating to straight stretches of railway. The New Zealand Railway Review" was quoted as stating that "Cobar to Lyugan held the record for the longest piece of straight rat way in Australia-* GO-mile stretch.' May I state that there is 110 such place as Lyngan, the line from Cobar to Nyiigan (tlio place evidently reierretl to) is not straight, ns a glance at the New South AVales railway map will show, and, thirdly, that the distance is not CO miles, but 82, according to New South Wales time-table? No! The record lor Australasia has been from Nyngan to Bourke, a distance of 12G miles without a curve. 1 The stretch of 340 miles referred to on the Transcontinental line will break all records, (lie next best being 21] miles on tho Btienos Aires and Pacific iiailway, in the Argentine Republic. It is also interesting to note that for the last 355 miles of this line not one river or stream is crossed, neither are there anv overhead bridges. On the same railway is another long stretch of IG2 miles; this, ill addition to being straight, being practically level throughout.—l am, etc., STRAIGHT.