Re: Some interesting info from NRCs and ARTCs annual reports.

[mauried@commslab.gov.au (Maurie Daly)]

In article <mauried.527.3898ACEA@commslab.gov.au> mauried@commslab.gov.au (Maurie Daly) writes:
>From: mauried@commslab.gov.au (Maurie Daly)
>Subject: Some interesting info from NRCs and ARTCs annual reports.
>Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 22:17:14 GMT

>This info taken from Jan edition of Rail 2000 Newsletter.

>1       NRC annual report 1988/89

OK an obvious typo , its supposed to be 1998/ 1999.

Thats not what is odd about the figures.

>Freight activity down by 2.9 % to 15.1 billion ntk.
>Revenue down by 4% to $417 million.
>Loco productivity 200 M gtk per loco PA.
>Annual operating loss = $36.039 million.
>For the astute readers there is something quite odd about two of the above 
>figures which I will let you figure out.


>2       ARTC annual report.
>Income from access fees $84.3 million.
>Expenditures ( mainly supply of goods and services and remuneration] $52.9 
>million.
>Ner profit $13.2 million of which the shareholder (guess who) gets $2 M.
>Here is some info on the various routes.
>Alice SP = 980 M GTK.
>Broken Hill = 1020 M GTK
>Adelaide - Kal = 13.8 B GTK
>Adelaide - Mel = 7.0 B GTK
>Mel - Albury = 2.4 B GTK

>Others ( I presume this includes Whyalla and Adelaide Port ]
>400 M GTK


>One potential issue that affects both the above operators is that if / when / 
>who knows the AP - darwin line is built , then the existing section of 
>Tarcoola - AP will be handed over to the new operator.
>This means that both NRC and ARTC will lose revenue from this source.


>MD