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| Articles about South West |
| A south-west Western Australian wine bottling facility is looking to switch to nitrogen gas | | 2008-06-23 04:52:00 | | The Capel Vale Winery usually uses carbon dioxide to bottle wine for 100 WA wineries, but has been unable to source any CO2, because it is no longer being produced, due to the gas shortage. The winery has now opted to use nitrogen gas which costs three times as much. Site manager Keith Warrick says he is negotiating with his supplier, working out the logistics to get the nitrogen to the south-west. "They have at least had somebody on site that's determined the appropriate location for the bulk vessel, the amount of engineering that's going to be required to get it up and running," he said.
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| | A train across south-west Australia | | 2007-09-24 17:51:00 | | The great India Pacific rail journey from Sydney to Perth takes 65 hours, but the most popular part is the 38-hour stretch you are after, west from Adelaide.The word "Nullarbor" is derived from the Latin for "no trees" and there's an especially desolate, swerve-free section of track there that lasts for a staggering 297 miles. It's the longest bit of straight railway line in the world that's like catching a train from Southampton to Newcastle without once being driven round a
... | | By: Australia Travel News | | |
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