A new film, Bringing Trains Back to the Northern Rivers, will be screened on Thursday at 6pm at the Lismore Workers’ Club.
Produced by the Northern Rivers Railway Action Group, the film details the history of the Casino to Murwillumbah railway line, as well as the failure of the NSW Government to provide services to the northern rivers region.
NRRAG chairperson Beth Shelley said the failure of Tweed Shire Council to attract funding for a rail trail on the Murwillumbah end of the railway line was evidence that the government was not willing to put money towards ‘a project that can’t generate the income necessary for ongoing maintenance’.
Ms Shelley the community needed to be asking why the state government was prepared to put $16.8 billion into the West Connex tollway, which covered just 30 kilometres in Sydney, but not into local rail services.
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