Re: Industrial bans in Melbourne
Rod Young (berlina@bigpond.com)
16 Aug 97 15:58:26 GMT
Tom Jones <Tom.Jones@sawasdi.apana.org.au> wrote in article
<c4f_9708050937@sawasdi.apana.org.au>...
> Hi "Rodney:
>
> In a msg of <01 Aug 97>, "Rodney T. Young" wrote to All:
>
> Don't you mean the least unprofitable. I don't believe the government
railways have been profitable for some time?
>
> Regards,
>
> Tom
>
>
>
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Funny thing that, Tom, In Victoria I can haul 55 bogie Vehicles fully
loaded 78 tonnes a vehicle. i.e. gross weight 4290 tonnes behind 3x G class
Locos Driver only, 300 km from Albury to Brooklyn in 4 hours c/o up Murtoa
and take the m/t train all the way back to albury in a 8 hour shift.THE
VALUE OF THE loco's and the train
would come in around $12 million[ prob too high] and the life expectancy
would be 20 to 30 years for the Rolling stock and 10 to 20 years for the
Locos.
A freeway costs around 3million dollars a km to construct as against
$100,000 a km
for a modern fast railway line[ figures a few years old]
A truck costs $300.000 and has a lifetime of 5 to 8 years Interstate and
hauls a gross load of 38 tonnes, each one with its own driver. Now how many
trucks and drivers do you think they would need to move my load of
wheat.{113=$40 mill] How many of them would reach their destination. They
fall asleep at the rate of about 5 a day on the Hume[Vict sect]
Fuel...well I dont know the figures but you use nearly ten times more fuel
to move a tonne of wheat on the road, than it does on the rail.
Now Craig has already told us management have not had pay rises for years.
We have only got C.O.L. adjustments for ten, and in the last eight all
gained by productivity gains that made them cost neutral [so they
say...they did us in every time]
So if you claim that we are running at a loss....How come?
Maybe you are listening to the Oil Companies , or the truckies themselves,
I guess
you just forget that they are the biggest most influential lobby Groups in
Australia.
and of course they dont care to tell the truth, just promote their own
lies.
for a lobby group to succeed, you need corupt politicians, and thats the
easy part,
by their very nature thats what you get. So now you have the right people
to cook the books.
Marinus VanOluffson[ Sorry, mate I got it wrong again didn't I] found more
Freight for V/Line after National Rail than any one thought possible. Only
a shocking wheat season stopped a magnificent PROFIT turnaround.....Guess
what he is gone now!
Min for Transport Brown took on the Portfolio amongst the biggest glloomy
predictions from V/Line workers and talked with us and turned us all on
with what looked like promises of better things to come. And he did it and
won our support and admiration[ puuhhh...I dont believe I said that about a
slimeball Liberal]
But guess what! 10 days after publically denying it, He went To Ireland
[what stick was held over this man, was it another ghost in the closet]and
poor little backbencher Cooper is facing the Music[ Is it true he takes the
top off Jonny about
11am and forgets to put it back on again?]
yes, I guess I should go out and blow my bloody head off, but then I know
the TRUTH,
I know some of the jerkoffs on this newsgroup who come accross as Pro
Railway are actually very lonely computer nerds who get their rocks off
stiring the pot...ah well
not everyone can work at his Hobby, hopefully a little while longer.....
OOPS, the tide is turning...Whats this TNT critisising the Federal
Transport Minister
for the lack of spending on Track Maintenance.......Its a Joke! Next
Brambles or
Boxcar, will be demanding the straightening of the southern Line or a
better route
to Brisbane....Whats that...Darwin line via Shepparton.....
Present company
always excepted of course
Rod.