Re: V/line have nothing spare as well,

["Spare" <grime@nex.removenet.au>]

Thank you James but you can stick your Red hens on a tourist railway if you
wish,don't even mention redhen and Warragul in the same breath.
 Warragul is in an extremely marginal state seat ,its taken Labor about 30
years to pinch it off the Libs,so I don't think they would entertain losing
it straight back at the next  election.
Electrify to Geelong if your short of locos.
Graeme

"James C" <noemail@emailsux.com> wrote in message
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> Craig Haber <albatross@harnessnet.com.au> wrote in message
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> > Hi,
> >
> > James C wrote:
> >
> > > Funnyhow I recalled there was a thread few month ago saying V/line
have
> > > plenty of spare carriages....but I doubt the accuracy of this
> information as
> > > V/line recently refurbished 4 compartment style carriages(BS216-219)
for
> > > usage, they must be in short of rolling stocks.
> >
> > No, V/Line have *nothing* spare.  BS216, (and 217?), 218 and 219 have
been
> in
> > traffic for yonks - they were not returned to traffic recently.  I think
> BS215
> > and an ACZ are currently under refurbishment, to provide additional
> capacity.
> > Our race train this year had a BCZ because there were no ACZ's
available.
> > V/Line are running a lot more services than was the case a couple of
years
> back,
> > carriage, loco and sprinter utilisation is very high.
> >
> > Regards,
> > CH.
> Sounds like they really shouldn't let go of Bluebirds.......and how would
> they manage to serve Leogatha, Mildura and give Echuca more frequent
> service? these 3 destination would require extra rollingstocks.
>
> If NExp hires Redhens for Stony Point and Warragul services(with decent
> seats and a/c also higer operational speed) that will release some
carriages
> and locos for V/line. IIRC GNR have plenty of Redhens in Bendigo.
>
> Cheers
> James
>
>
>
> > --
> > Craig Haber
> > albatross@harnessnet.com.au
> > Rail Operations Officer, West Coast Railway
> > Web Page Developer, Railway Enthusiast, Essendon Football Club Fanatic
> > http://www.harnessnet.com.au/ch/
> > I haven't really lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere......
> >
> >
>
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