Re: 422s - Have they been Sold?

["Exnarc" <gwrly@netspace.net.au>]

Rod <berrlina@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> Grahame Ferguson <grahamef@users.mcmedia.com.au> wrote in message
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> > From the the rumour mill that abounds from more than one source, has
> stated
> > that 15 x 422 class locomotives have been sold.
> >
> > Is this true and to who??
> Suppose they won't want the old stuff when they take over NR, with all
those
> NR's?
> but seriously, I thought that as a Government body, they would have had to
> sell off their assetts by Public Auction, as they have in the past. No
> notification or advertising would suggest that no sale has been made.
> Rod
> Rod
>
Rod.

Hasn't Freight Corp been corporatised (name would suggest so), if so
wouldn't they be allowed to dispose of surplus equipment like any other
company??

Bob