Re: NR at Spencer St
Krel (krel4203@netconnect.com.au)
1 Oct 97 10:45:05 GMT
John Dennis <jdennis@acslink.net.au> wrote in article
<3431a6c4.13749048@nntp.peg.apc.org>...
> >Noted NR101 in the SG runaround at Spencer St at 7:45 this morning
> >(Monday 29/9). What was it doing there??
> >
> >Not a particularly attractive beast, are they? :)
>
> I have heard that GSR, who won the AN Passenger business, will be
> contracting out for power. One of the contenders to operate the
> trains is NR, so I guess they might have been checking out
> clearances,etc, of the NR class prior to running the Overland.
>
>
A minor derailment at NRCs MFT Yard left the NR with nowhere to go to get
out of the way of the XPT and Overland except Spencer Street. After track
repairs and departure of XPT and Overland Empty Cars the NR made its way to
the fuel point.
On the subject of GSR AFAIK they have to take over running the overland by
about November !st.
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Cheers Krel
The Law of Inverse Proportions - The chances of the signal clearing
without having to get out of the cab and go to a lineside phone is inversly
proportional to the amount of rain falling at the time :-)