Re: "NEW" rail service AD to SYD.

[Tell <telljb@ozemail.com.au>]

David Bromage <dbromage@fang.omni.com.au> wrote:
> Tell wrote:
> > What was that old saying, the more things change the
> > more the stay the same.
> > 
> > Heard on radio today a new rail freight service will
> > commence from Adelaide to Sydney via Broken Hill.
> 
> Depends who the operator is. If, say, ASR is to start its own service to
> Sydney, that can be considered to be a new service.
> 
> Cheers
> David



Yes could be, whatever ARG's AD to SYD intentions,
there was an *existing* service before NRC until the
great reforms of the eighties, which decreed that all
freight, rail that is, should run via Melbourne.

BTW, the same radio news said that "new" freight
facilities would be built in Adelaide to cater for the
new AS to DAR line.!

....Tell