Re: 422s - Have they been Sold?

[David Langley <del@ancc.com.au>]

Exnarc wrote:

> I agree (partly) with what you say, the rail industry will never advance
> until it realises who the enemy is.
>
> However, the real problem is that there are to many players for to small a
> ball.
>
> Free market economics may work well in the UK, Europe or North America when
> it comes to rail, but the traffic which (equates to profit) is to small and
> the distances are to great in Australia for rail to succesfully compete with
> other rail companies. As I said road traffic is the enemy of rail and thats
> where the competition should be.
>
> Maybe we can have several rail companies, but maybe they need to take a leaf
> from Freight Victoria and restrict their operations to regions, work in
> conjunction with other railways not against them???
>
> Bob.

Hear, hear. This is the very reason why all these very fast train schemes and
the inland rail route to Darwin will not work - we are tooo blooody small.

David.