Re: Will the last rail operator left...

[telljb@ozemail.com.au (< Tell >)]

mauried@commslab.gov.au (Maurie Daly) wrote:
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>MD The Trans line has always since standardization had the lions share of freight.
>MD Its ideally suited to this task ,there are no grades of substance , trains are 
>MD long and heavy and travel at high average speeds , ie its got everything going 
>MD for it .

It always carried the lions share, long before the
standard gauge link to the East Coast.
As I have said before the CR/ANR/AN unlike the State
systems DID NOT ignore the truckies or wait for their
political masters to "legislate" their competition, it
went out of its way to carry them.

----Terry Burton