>Heard on the local news this morning a spokesperson from freightcorp talking
>about the building of a major freight forwarding terminal in Canberra again.
>This is for apparantly the purposes of transferring containers from the Port
>of Sydney to canberra and then on by road to whereever,sort of an equivalent
>of Griffith or Bomen.
>Of more interest though was the proposed location which seemed to be not the
>old rail yards at Kingston but a completely new rail yard at Hume.
>Whilst this would make sense,most of the major industrial players are or are
>going to Hume .
>The interesting thing is that Hume is on the Cooma line ,and Im pretty sure is
>on the ARHS ACT divs bit of the line.
>Would make for interesting train working.
>Also on the same radio program ,the Freightcorp Spokesperson also indicated
>that Freightcorp would be very shortly running trains to Melbourne.
>Anyone have more details about any of this.
>cheers
>MD
>Maurie Daly
>Sen Tech Officer
>DCA Comms Lab
>Canberra
>Australia
>06 2791331 (W)
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You are right Hume is on the old Cooma line and yes we do run to Michelago,
but it is still owned by the SRA we only have a non exclusive operating (and
maintenance) aggreement.
David Malcolm