Re: Broken Hill - Fate?

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>]

"Chris" <chrisc@fl.net.au> wrote in message 3a0bae1c$1@fl.net.au">news:3a0bae1c$1@fl.net.au...
> Yes, they were. From my posting on this newsgroup on the 08.05.00 I wrote
> the following........
>
> According to a article in the Sun Herald 7/5/00 on the withdrawn Outback
> Explorer, a Gail Gregory who is the countrylink general manager said
> "Countrylink had been unable to replace the train in Australia and the
cost
> was too high to bring one from England so it was taken out of service".

Political speak. It never would have happened.

> I'm assuming that they were trying to buy 2nd hand BR stock - WHY?.

You know what they say about assume.

Dave