Re: Rubbish to Cessnock.
Barry Campbell (campblbm@ozemail.com.au)
Thu, 26 Feb 1998 08:21:43 +1000
Maurie Daly wrote in message ...
>On the ABC news tonite (25/3/) was an article about transporting rubbish
from
>Sydney to a proposed rubbish dump in Cessnock in the Hunter Valley.
>Without wishing to get into the merits / otherwise of doing this , the
article
>indicated that the rubbish ,all 12 million tonnes of it per annum , would
be
>trucked from Sydney to Cessnock.
>Surely this is an ideal purpose for rail.
>How many trucks will be needed to transport 12 million tonnes per annum.
>A bloody lot.
>
>cheers
>MD
>
One problem is that there is no railway line from Sydney to Cessnock. There
is one from Sydney to Broadmeadow to Maitland to Cessnock but the road run
direct. Having said that 12 mtpa equates to around 1000 trucks per day (ie
one truck every 90 seconds) which does not seem feasible as it would require
a massive fleet. Mind you - even the ABC broadcasts rubbush (sorry) these
days.
Barry Campbell