Re: Excess NR Locos for Sale

["Rod [comtrain]" <freight_man@hotmail.com>]

This would be very interesting if it were true.
Somerton could get Freight Australia out of the shit very quickly, flats
could carry a lot of logs with little modification!.
Most of the bogies are stored at Dynon
Rod
"Grahame Ferguson" <grahamef@users.mcmedia.com.au> wrote in message
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> In todays (23/5/01) Financial Review (also at www.afr.com.au ) under the
> headline-
>  "PM backs new plan for rail sell-off"
> It began by stating that "The Federal Government plans to link National
Rail
> Corporation and FreightCorp before selling them in a $1.6 billion
> privatisation this year."
> It concluded: "To overcome the ACCC's concerns the Federal Government is
> understood to be considering having National Rail sell some of its excess
> locomotives and rolling stock."
> "This rolling stock would then be sold to other industry players to boost
> competition."
>
> This is a big change to NR's reluctance to sell any rolling stock to any
> competitors.
>
> What will become of its older locomotives? BLs 81s and the Cs?
>
> Will a C class ever be preserved??
>
> Cheers
>
> Grahame
>
>