Re: Rail privatizations.

["James C." <james_ccj@my-deja.com>]

> ATN in TAS is the only example of rail winning back road freight that
> I know of and I left it out of the argument as its not mainland.
> The bottom line is that on the mainland ,rail cant win back much from
> road whilst road doesnt have to pay mass distance charges and rail
> does.

Page 7 August 2000 Railway Digest Austrac won contract from road
transport. But I assume it probabily contributes only a small tonnage
increase.


> I also cant see why NRC should have lost any freight to other players
> as it has the most modern efficient loco fleet in the country and its
> creation was heavilly bankrolled by its 3 shareholders, ie if any rail
> operator was going to succeed it should have been NRC.
ARA reported this before. Due to long running time, high operational
cost,  mismanagement.

http://www.ara.net.au/archives/facts/19990122081034.pdf

and

http://www.ara.net.au/archives/facts/19990122081138.pdf


> On the main south which is where I live , the number of trains
> carryung containers and other contestable freight has actually fallen
> since the creation of NRC, with what used to be all NRC trains now
> being slowly replaced with FC,FA and Austrac trains , but no net
> increase in train numbers .

Would it have something to do with trains gets longer rather then more
frequently due to loop lengthing?

> I would love to see some signs of rail winning back freight from road
> , but if it is , its miniscule .

Drove around Hume highway and Ring road in Melbourne all day. These 2
highways are completely over-run by trucks, B doubles etc. They are
slow, noisy and dangers from what I see. Not to mention fuel
in-efficiency compare with a train.
While I was at Ararat last week, there were trucks going through every
few minutes or so whereas the Adelaide-Melbourne interstate track
looked so quiet.

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Cheers

Railway Rasputin


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