Re: How many NR locos are now written of?

[--kaurna@hotmail.com (Jim Celt)]

Yes the C class and some DL`s are in storage at Islington workshops


On Sun, 01 Nov 1998 13:16:44 GMT, Graham D Baker
<bakerss@ozdocs.net.au> wrote:

>NRC only received :
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>13 x 81's
>7 x  G's
>10 x BL's
>9 x AN's
>15 x DL's
>10 x C's
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>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 ?
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>The new NR's were purchased to bring the overall cost of running a train down to an acceptable level.
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>How many trucking companies have trucks over ten years old on their books for interstate haulage?
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>Not many I can tell you.
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>The NR's have made a hugh impact on on-time reliability, and the overall cost of fuel to the company.
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>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%.
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>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.
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>Regards,
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>Graham D Baker,
>NRC Driver Sydney.
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>Maurie Daly wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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
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