Re: VicGrain predicts massive wheat yield

[lbrown2@bigpond.com (Brown Family)]

On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 20:36:35 +1000, "Thommo" <mjthom@hdc.net.au>
wrote:

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>David Bromage <dbromage@fang.omni.com.au> wrote in message
>39E3D097.E12EE25B@fang.omni.com.au">news:39E3D097.E12EE25B@fang.omni.com.au...
>> [Not strictly about railways, but it will mean more grain trains over
>> the summer.]
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>FA Had started grain transhipments from Tocumwal last weekend and were to
>continue this week in an effort to clear some of the bunkers "only something
>is now blocking the Geelong line!!! Grrr"
>A small amount is going to Appleton Dock.
>
What is absolutely insane is that the busiest country line in Victoria
is blocked and is expected to stay that way until the weekend.

As a TOC rep pointed out in an article in The Age, how long would the
Hume Highway have been closed for if the same thing happened there? 

If I were a public company and losing $5M per day for every day that
line is closed I would be looking very carefully at who is going to
pay for my company's losses.......government? union? construction
company? 

Les Brown