Re: Will the last rail operator left...

["Daryl Cheshire" <daryl.cheshire@dse.vic.gov.au>]

With road/railers it literally carried the road operators.

One tour to Perth even brought their chartered air-con coach with them on a
flat-top and bussed it up north.

Daryl



< Tell > wrote in message <3727d883.1901644@news.ozemail.com.au>...
>mauried@commslab.gov.au (Maurie Daly) wrote:
>>
>>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
>