>Friday nights Overland ex Adelaide 21/11 made only about 1km out of
>Adelaide before being pushed back into Keswick Terminal. It seems the
>vintage Power Car just gave up.
>NRC locos have no head end power. So another late departure out of
>Adelaide yet again. On a foot note:- Serco who do the staffing with GSR
>for the trains seem to have another problem with the northern bus
>contract from the State Govt. When the Govt. privatised the northern bus
>depot at Elizabeth staff took a pay cut of about 5,000 down from
>33,000p.a. now Serco apparently is asking the staff for another $2,000
>cut, obviously privitisation isn't going well in public transport. Now
>we could of told them that years ago!!!!.
>cya Scorpion.
I guess the obvious question here is do GSR actually employ any electrical /
diesel fitters who are qualified to maintain the gen sets ?
People like this are usually hard to come by and certainly you cant pay them
peanuts.
Large diesel gen sets like the ones in the HGMs will last forever with proper
maintenance, and the maintenance needed isnt great.
On a similar question who owns all the ex aurora PHNs?
cheers
MD
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Maurie Daly
Department of Communications Lab.
Canberra
Australia
mauried@commslab.gov.au
ph 6 2791331
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