Re: How many NR locos are now written of?

[Graham D Baker <bakerss@ozdocs.net.au>]

NRC only received :

13 x 81's
7 x  G's
10 x BL's
9 x AN's
15 x DL's
10 x C's

The 81's are now used for yard shunters Australia wide.
The G's are still under dispute with the Vic Govt ?
The C's are in storage again I think ?

The new NR's were purchased to bring the overall cost of running a train down to an acceptable level.

How many trucking companies have trucks over ten years old on their books for interstate haulage?

Not many I can tell you.

The NR's have made a hugh impact on on-time reliability, and the overall cost of fuel to the company.

If you can't get your trains to the destination on time, no matter what the price or how low it is
you are going to lose customers. The NR's have brought the on-time delivery into the terminals up to
95%.

This is a far cry from having only 40 - 50 % getting there on time, with those old pieces of shit
that kept falling over every time you looked at them.

Regards,

Graham D Baker,
NRC Driver Sydney.


Maurie Daly wrote:

> There not , but the 80s and the Cs were never intended to be transferred to
> NRC, and never were .
> NRC ended up buying the Vline Cs for a song , around $100 K each.
> NRC however did receive from the 3 shareholders the following locomotives
> ANX10
> DLX15
> BLX10
> ELX 14 (these were refused)
> 81X at least 20 possibly 26
> G X 10
> ie NRC could have received up to 84 modern locomotives if they had wanted them
> all.
> Now admittedly some of these locos have been badly damaged in accidents , and
> no attempt has been made to fix any of them.
>
> By my reckoning this gives NRC a potential fleet of at least 194 modern
> locomotives , all to move a miniscule annual tonnage of 10 million tonnes ,
> the lowest of any Govt Railway system.
> There is no doubt that NRC did need to buy new locos , but not 120 of them .
> If one beleives NRCs own annual report they run 300 trains per week , and to
> achieve an annual total tonnage of 10 million tonnes , this amounts to 192300
> tonnes per week , which in 300 trains averages around 641 tonnes per train.
> Obviously some trains will carry more , some less , but its pretty obvious
> that a loco fleet of 194 locos is not needed to move 300 trains per week.
> This amounts to 1.5 trips per week per loco.
> Now either NRC are carrying lots of air , or all of their trains are running
> between between Sydney and Perth, as this is the only scenerio that would come
> even close .
> In reality what is happening is that NRC are running all of their trains with
> very high HP/tonne figures, ie lots of locos on every train .
> This really doesnt achieve very much though , apart from increasing the trains
> running costs.
> I suspect that NRC are in the same bind as the SRA , ie they have to pay a
> minimum monthly lease payment on every new loco, irrespective of how much they
> are used, so you may as well use them all.
> It does nothing for your profitability though.
>
> MD