>Maurie Daly <mauried@commslab.gov.au> wrote in article
>No doubt you would have read this morning's Canberra Times since posting
>your article. Whilst there are some inaccuracies in the article, yesterday
>there was a 'launch' of Freightcorp's new road/rail container terminal in
>the Kingston Yards, near Canberra station. It is expected to be in
>business within 12 months. This is supposed to be a temporary arrangement
>for the next three years, pending establishment of a permanent facility at
>Hume. It is expected to take 65 semi-trailers a day off the Hume Highway.
>Freightcorp were originally planning to open a facility at Queanbeyan in
>the largely disused yards there, but it became a political issue with local
>residents objecting - they wanted more parkland in the area. The article
>then gets a bit confused, saying that container 'carriages' would be added
>to the regular fuel train which runs three days a week - it doesn't, it
>runs six days a week.
>Hume is on the former Cooma line, which is leased to the ARHS ACT as David
>Malcom said. It would probably need some infrastructure work to cater for
>heavier trains than are presently operated over it.
>Regards
>David Bennetts
Very close David but I never said lease. It is an operating aggreement, which
you should well no. The infrastructure work required is on the timber opening
as I understand it the track itself is in fairly good condition up to Hume, I
am open to correction.
David Malcolm