Re: New freight on Canberra Branch

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On 10 Dec 98 21:05:40 GMT, "David Bennetts" <davibenn@pcug.org.au>
wrote:

>With a decline in freight traffic on the Canberra branch over recent years
>(reduction in the proportion of fuel coming to Canberra by rail and the
>closure of the Woodlawn mine near Tarago) it is pleasing to see that
>transfer of logs by rail started yesterday from Bungendore.  I am informed
>that two Austrac locos were in Bungendore yard yesterday.  Both ex WA
>locos, numbers not known.
>
>

Strange!   It was my understanding that it was to be a one-off
movement by FreightCorp.   Could you please cnfirm that it was
AUSTRAC.

Hunslet.