Re: Stupid Question

["James C" <noemail@emailsux.com>]

John McCandless <johnmc@topend.com.au> wrote in message
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> Hi Craig,
>
> Queensland Rail (QR) is a state government owned corporation running
freight
> and passenger services in the state of Queensland, running over approx
> 9000km of 3' 6" gauge line.  It would be safe to describe it as a "coal
> junkie", with that product providing most of it's income, and being
> responsible for the electrification of  about 2400km of line in the mid to
> late 80's.
> Legislation exists to enable 3rd party operators to run trains over QR
> lines, but AFAIK there are no operators currently accreditied (one
pending -
> a tourist operator in Cairns, in Qld's far north).
> QR's has made no secret of the fact that it is looking to operate
> interstate - it is predicted that eventually there will be one or 2 big
rail
> operators in Australia, and QR wants to be one of them.....
Freight Corp also wanna be one of them.....but apparantly State government
enterprice like QR and Freight Corp banned from purchasing NR and Westrail,
it's unlikely any of them would be the last two...unless Freight Copr and QR
itself gets priviatise.

Cheers
James


> Hope this is of interest.
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> John McCandless
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> CS&J <csandj@home.com> wrote in message
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> > I am a Canadian wondering about Australia's rail system. Are they State
> run
> > or National? Are there any private enterprises? Who are the big players?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Craig
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