Re: Genesee & Wyoming / Westrail sale

[Tell <just@hate.spammers.com>]

Er um, must be the time of the year, ;)  please replace
predecessors with successors.

....Tell

 

>Tell <just@hate.spammers.com> wrote:

> Fair enough, I am not bothered too much.
> 
> I do remember when the Bureau of Transport Economics
> did a study on the two *BIG* states, NSW & Vic way back
> in the eighties.  The combined losses of rail in both
> were astronomical, millions per day.
> 
> It was Federal LABOR who decided to do something about
> it and formed NRC with NSW & Vic participation.
> Has it worked, .....well I leave that up to the reader.
> 
> I come from mostly Ireland and Wales stock some 150
> plus years ago, so dont really give a toss whether our
> colonial rail systems stick with mother country
> operating practices which were based around passenger
> trains and thomas the tank engine four wheel wagons,
> along with the Brit jargon.
> 
> W.A. Webb an American who was the Commissioner of the 
> SAR showed well before WW2 what railways should really
> be about, took a long time for the other states to wake
> up, Commonwealth Railways and their predecessors
> excepted.
> 
> ....Tell
> 
> 
> >Chris French <cfrench@starwon.com.au> wrote:
> > 
> > G'day all,
> > 
> > Am I in the minority here, when I say that it's a great loss to our
> > Australian history to have our railways renamed railroads? (A personal
> > YUCK here).
> > 
> > As if the adoption of American-isms is not already rampant enough in our
> > society! Another classic naming problem is the increasing description of
> > Railway Stations as "Train Stations".
> > 
> > Seems to me our Australian historical identity is being sold out, or
> > undermined just as much, if not more than our infrastructure.
> > 
> > Sorry for the Christmas gripe. :-(
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Chris. F.