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Re: Freight DMU [was Re: Latest news on Speedrail]
- Subject: Re: Freight DMU [was Re: Latest news on Speedrail]
- From: "Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au>
- Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 10:52:06 +1000
- Newsgroups: aus.rail
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"Arthur Marsh" <mars0177@flinders.edu.au> wrote in message news:39d59324_1@news.chariot.net.au...
> What can be done to make it easier to load and unload containers at smaller
> stations and sidings though? I've seen road trucks that have on-board
> equipment so that they can load and unload a container with just the driver
> and no external equipment, but wonder if anything could be done on the rail
> side.
Freighters don't stop at smaller stations or sidings or even larger ones. Everything's point to point now. Almost the lot go from
one marshalling yard/intermodal point to another.