Re: Sprinter rumour

Craig Haber (albatross@harnessnet.com.au)
Sun, 09 Nov 1997 21:41:57 -0800

Maurie Daly wrote:
Mark Wrote:
> >Question:
> >Will the company that buys V/Line passenger get their track maintained for free
> > or will they actually have to pay the cost of track maintenence?
> >Mark.

They'll negotiate access with VicTrack.
>
> On a similar subject , who actually maintains V/lines track now ?
> Is it the freight half or the passenger half , or is there some other part of
> V/line that isnt corporatised.
> (Maybe the same crowd thats maintaining the SRAs suburban lines , ugggh)

The non-metro track is now operated by Victorian Rail Track Corporation
(I think that's the correct name), more commonly known as VicTrack. I'd
imagine maintenance was handed over to them when they became responsible
for train control.

Cheers,
Craig.

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