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Re: NRC comes unstuck in the Alice.



Are you doing the investigation?
Or are you just prempting it ?
Do you have any idea what occurs in a derailment?

"Tell" <telljb@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> Yesterday an NR class shunting Mobil tankers managed to
> spread said waggons well and truly all over the Western
> end of the Alice Springs yards.  The scene had the look
> of a high speed derail.  Questions will be asked, like
> how come a shunt movement caused so much damage, like
> how come a bogie was ripped out from under one of the
> waggons.  How come a revenue hauling NR is trapped on
> the Western side of the derailment and it will remain
> there until they clean up the mess.
>
> Life goes on, but in these heady days of competition
> and deregulation, anything that falls off the tracks up
> this way is bound to stay that way until expertise
> which used to be available locally, now comes up from
> somewhere down south.
>
> There was something comforting about the CR/ANR/AN pre
> federal labor NRC-NSW-VIC, the former were always able
> to look after "isolated incidents" anywhere in the most
> far flung regions of their Trans Australian and Central
> Australia systems quick smart.
>
> Alice to Darwin in this new age anyone.?
>
> ....Tell
>