Re: NRC scrapping wagons.

["Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au>]

"Maurie Daly" <mauried@tpg.com.au> wrote in message
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> This doesnt seem to have gotten any airtime on aus.rail so here goes.
> Readers may be aware that NRC is currently cutting up for scrap
> perfectly useable but surplus wagons rather than let them go to a
> competitor.
> Given that NRC is about to be sold , this action is nothing short of
> vandalism which will reduce the sale price of the Company and make it
> less attractive .
> One wonders why the current shareholders of NRC are allowing this to
> happen, or is it likely they dont know it is happening.
> There is also the suggestion that this action will also befall some of
> the surplus locomotives that NRC has.
> This sort of action is economic lunacy , with the road freight
> industry the only winners.



I imagine these would be the same wagons they got for free from FreightCorpse
and V/Line in the first place.