Re: Melbourne railway - civil engineering

["Andrew Collis" <andrew.collis@virgin.net>]

Thanks for the information. I'm looking to move to Melbourne (from London)
next year and wanted to get a clearer picture of the set up between operator
and maintenance.

Regards
Andrew


B. wrote in message
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>"Reece Isaac" <throttle@alphalink.com.au> wrote in message
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>> Andrew Collis wrote:
>
>>> Can anyone tell me who is responsible for the civil and track
>>> engineering maintenance on the melbourne system ?
>
>> It depends on which part of the system you and exactly what item U want
>> to know about?  There seems to be no-one entity responsible.  It is
>> covered by John Holland, ETR. and a division of what used to be ABB.
>> Even Freight Australia seems to have trouble who is responsible for
>> what and who pays for what!
>
>AFAIK the routine maintenance contracts are as follows:
>
>Connex - Alstom
>M>Train - Thiess Infraco
>FA - EDI PTR
>ARTC - EDI PTR
>
>John Holland bought most of the track machines and the tie renewal
business,
>and can be seen doing their thing everywhere.
>
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>B.
>
>Email - b at four12 dot net
>ICQ#  - eight two three two nine seven three four
>Phone - long, short, long, long.
>
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