Re: B-TRIPLES, WHAT A JOKE ( I WISH) !
tezza (tezza@atinet.com.au)
Thu, 2 Apr 1998 17:07:57 +1000
Tell wrote in message <6fv1bu$269$1@reader1.reader.news.ozemail.net>...
>The success of the Road Transport Industry is in no
>small way due to the fractured State Railway Systems
>that have been part of the Australian landscape since
>the first steel wheel turned on a steel rail.
>Here we are, almost at the next millennium, and we are
>no better off.
>
>I have excerpts from Australian National Railways
>annual reports many years ago that highlighted the
>problems of ANR dealing with State Railways.
>Victoria was one of the worst, they even "lost" waggons
>of goods for customers for a couple of weeks, not only
>that, when ANR started shoving long trains over the
>border back in the seventies, the Vics was unable to
>handle them because of their constipated 19th Century
>English working practises, based on passenger trains
>and short crossing loops.
>Things are not really much better, the "new" standard
>gauge from the border to Melbourne proves that.
>Well, we do have National Rail now, but ....it is run
>by public servants who answer to the Minister, the more
>things change the more they stay the same.!
>The road industry is 100% private and growing stronger
>each year, somewhere in there is a message.
Except that NRC isn't run by public servants. Even that idiot they hired
from the SRA is no longer a public servant. Though he has continued to
empire build, just like a public servant, resulting in a loss of a lot
of the gains they made from the Drivers, shunters, examiners and crane
operators.