Re: Cowra - Blayney: first and last train

[pcc@ocean.com.au (Brown Family)]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2000 22:32:17 +1100, "Ian Larcher"
<metalastic@ozemail.com.au> wrote:

>Perhaps if someone in Freightcorp  was prepared to have a go and insist on
>their previously on time trains not being delayed or better still demand
>demurrage for the lost time things would radically improve. But as the old
>saying goes no one gives a f--ck.
>
The problem seems to me to be that at least NRC gives a f.... It
Freightcorp that doesn't seem to care. 

Ok, I admit it, I am biased and I really hate to say it, but things
appear different down in Victoria. The operators here seem more than
ready to jump up and down if things don't go their way, no matter
who's toes it is that needs to be jumped on.

Private ownership responds very quickly to customer demands, where the
delivery of service is not viewed as a community service but a need to
generate profits for investors.

My advice is to privitise Freightcorp and throw out all the dead wood
types that retains the communal service idea as to how a railway is
run.

Communal service attitudes were fine in the days when the roads were
terrible and cars/trucks/bullocks/camels, etc, were unreliable and/or
slow and rail was the only practical way to move things around.
Railways have moved on, Roads have moved back.

Les Brown

"Some fella says that 50% of people in this world have below average intelligence"
"Nah, that's not right, most of the people I know are pretty smart" 
"I think you just proved his point"