Re: Road Cost Recovery.

[Neill <n2386160@sparrow.qut.edu.au>]

On Wed, 20 May 1998, Barry Campbell wrote:

> 
> Tell wrote in message <6jtm26$11h$3@reader1.reader.news.ozemail.net>...
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> >
> >Is that right.  One thing though Barry, QR charges some
> >of the highest prices known for mineral cartage, o'l
> >Joh BP made sure of that years ago, it was these
> >charges that ensured QR could keep uneconomic branch
> >lines open like the good old Normanton to Croyden.!
> >The National Network does not have multinational miners
> >that it can slug for ore cartage.
> >
> >I hate to say this, but Queensland with its skinny
> >gauge does not rate in the Standard Gauge National
> >network, except for the SG into Brisbane.
> 
> That is certainly true about the slug on th coal miners but from memory the
> whole lot is not included in QR revenue. It will be interesting to see what
> happens after 2000 when competition is supposed to start.
> 
It is not 2000 anymore, it was in the courier mail that joan sheldon had
got rid of the extra period and the hilmer competion reforms would come in
at the end of the year


> 
> I don't know what you mean by Queensland does not rate. Unfortunately it is
> not connected to the rest of the system by std gauge but QR is a busier
> freight system than all but NSW.
> 
A hell of a lot of containor traffic is moved up the NCL, but wouldn't it
to QR's benifit if they started running longer trains(like NR), the ones
that i saw this year and last year on the NCL, looked no longer than 500m
if that.  Are the crossing loops between Bris and Rocky really short?
Because the trains north of rocky (when i was living in towwnsville)
looked far longer than the ones that travel through nambour everyday. 

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> Barry Campbell
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Neill