MP challenges Bracks on Bairnsdale train service Will train services return to Bairnsdale? By ABC online - 26th October 2000 - Back to News Tell us your opinion See what others have said Independent Gippsland East MP Craig Ingram has challenged the Bracks Government to come clean on whether passenger train services will return to Bairnsdale.
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