Re: NSW Rail scene, Info required please.
Chris Stratton (stratton.chris.cp@bhp.com.au)
28 Jul 1997 03:41:33 GMT
Terry Burton <telljb@ozemail.com.au> wrote in article
<5rh27r$bt4@reader1.reader.news.ozemail.net>...
> Could some of you kind folk over East bring me up to
> date on the present and likely future in NSW.
>
> Is NRC carrying all Interstate Freight North to
> Brisbane and South to Melbourne or is anybody else
> like Freight Rail allowed to join in.
>
> Can NRC "muscle" in on Freight Rail's Coal traffic.
>
> Any Private Freighters like SCT operating in NSW, if so
> who hauls them around.
>
> I read sometime ago of Austrac a Private outfit working
> from Junee I think. Is it still a goer.
>
> Silverton were making a quid some time ago hiring out
> Loco's in SA for banking the Adelaide Hills-(Sheesh and
> this is the preferred National Route!) and "shortages",
> but with all the NR's galloping around and possible
> surplus AN traction, I figured that little earner may
> have dried up. What is Silverton up to these days.
>
> Is BHP still running the Unanderra Trains with leased
> Loco's.
>
> Any others getting into the act in NSW.
>
> Thanks in anticipation.
>
> ----Tell
> Alice Springs NT
>
>
BHP Port Kembla is still using the locos leased from Austrac on the
services to Elouera Colliery at Wongawilli. This service uses the SRA (or
whatever these days) main line between Unanderra and Brownsville. The locos
used are normally 101 (ex 44229) and 102 (ex 44233), with 103 (ex 4537) as
a backup. If more than one is out of service the ex Mt Goldsworthy K class
are used as well.
Regards,
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Any opinions are all my own work.