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Article: SA: Domestic industry to embrace Adelaide-Darwin freight rail
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- January 13, 2004
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AAP General News (Australia)
01-13-2004
SA: Domestic industry to embrace Adelaide-Darwin freight rail
ADELAIDE, Jan 13 AAP - Domestic industry would quickly embrace the Adelaide-Darwin
railway, to be opened on Thursday, FreightLink said today.
The first FreightLink train to travel the recently completed AustralAsia railway departs
Adelaide on Thursday for a 3,000km journey to Darwin.
"It's fulfilling a century-old dream to open up the red heart of Australia, link the
south to the north and have a gateway into Asia," FreightLink chief executive officer
Bruce McGowan said today.
"It's going to provide some great opportunities in terms of trade, tourism and be a
catalyst for development ...