Re: NRC scrapping wagons.

[Peter Homann <phomann@optushome.com.au>]

That stinks of the "increase the competition between the operators" that
the various Governments have been pushing for the last <insert number
here> years.

Anyone noticed how GSR now have a good product or three, mainly because
they're competing with the real competition, namely buses?  Admittedly
there isn't any other rail competition.  The same could possibly

Anyway, "congratulations" to NRC for not only preventing any competition,
but also for making their own expansion difficult.

Cheers.

Maurie Daly wrote:

> 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.
>
> MD

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