Re: AN sale: end of an era: Hooray

[nldoncas@cobweb.com.au (Nic Doncaster)]

telljb@ozemail.com.au (Terry Burton) writes:
> How sad that the sale of Australian National or rather what was
> left after the previous Federal Labor Politicians butchered it,
> was finally hived off for the sum of $95 million and the core to
> a foreign operator.
> 
> My Grand Father who helped build the Trans Australia Railway and
> some of my old Commonwealth Railways mates would turn in their
> graves.
> 
> Vale : Commonwealth Railways, Australian National Railways and
> Australian National.  
> 
> 
> ----Tell
> Alice Springs NT

I would like to agree with you Tell, But CR/ANR/AN ripped the guts out of the 
state system of SA.

What has happened is a disgrace (ie all the local stuff shut down), but it is a 
valuable lesson on how pollies think only of themselves.

I am keen to see what impact the new owners have on Port lincoln.

Nic
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