Belly,

Just as the Liberals, under Greiner, sold the Right-of-way for the line to LaPerouse.

To buy it back would cost billions.

One of the problems is that Passenger Rail in NSW makes more money by running buses than trains.

There have been attempts by community-based groups to run trains on such lines as the Great Northern Railway beyond Armidale, but these have come to nothing in the face of Government and Railways opposition.

Ise Mise yes true but a fast train is a different thing, in the current climate, it may not come
But even more likely if it comes it will be government owned because we only keep what does not make a profit

Just to clarify, the NSW Government were floating two high speed rail options. In the short to medium term upgrade existing routes to 200 km/h, and in the long term new routes at 250 km/h or more. https://www.nsw.gov.au/improving-nsw/projects-and-initiatives/a-fast-rail-future-for-nsw/

Tomw yes aware of that, and once done every line will want it, just may be the answer to traffic congestion

I'd forgotten about Greiner and the way he sold off the commuter car parking near railway stations and then a later Liberal government hired him as a private consultant to find a solution to the mess he'd created for rail travellers in the first place. I don't think he found one but made a tidy sum for his efforts.

Politics is certainly "the gift that keeps on giving" if you have the right connections.

rache you know I am a bad person, an active member of the ALP, that makes me some thing on the boot of a dairy farmer to some here
BUT we yes my ALP sold the NSW lotteries, including the one used to raise money for the Opera house
WE GAVE the buyers the unclaimed prize money as part of the deal *check it out*
We oh yes we, sold out NSW power, the incoming Government, winning on a wave of disgust at the Obeid gang of filth, sold the rest
See we, voters on both sides, let them do it, time and again we let our biases blind us to what *our side is doing*