Re: JR in Australia

[Jonathan Lau <jonlau@ozemail.com.au>]

James C wrote:

> One of the listed member of ARA in ARA's 2000 year book is surprisingly
> <<<JR Central>> or Central Japan Railway company
> The Japanese operator based in Nagoya and operates Bullet trains/pricipal
> narrow gauge trains in central part of Japan.
>
> Apparantly JR Central set up an office at AMP building in Sydney and run
> local subsdiary company that export Australian products to Japan or sell
> those products on board JR Central's train. (Possibly food )
>
> The office in Sydney also collect Australian railway industry information
> and send to Japan. (They didn't bid for NR and Westrail did they?)

The company I work for has had several JR employees on exchange from Japan.
They were sent to Australia to learn how the Australian freight industry
works and how Australian Railways run.

One thing they were surprised about was how the track was owned by someone
else and many operators were allowed to use it - competition doesn't exist in
Japan!

I will have to find out what they're up to!!

Jon Lau