Re: A new Era Starts For Victoria's Railways

[Mike.Roebuck@cobblers.datacomm.ch (Michael Roebuck)]

On Sat, 13 Feb 1999 12:37:27 +1100, "David Proctor"
<daproc@spam_this.umpires.com> wrote:

>Michael Roebuck wrote in message <36c7d36c.10079072@news.datacomm.ch>...
>
>>>Agreed - they might even turn things around. The first thing they did in
>the
>>>UK was buy 250 new locos!
>>>
>>and the second was to discard 15?% of their staff, so that they can
>>afford to pay for them!
>
>But when you are combining five companies (LoadHaul, Mainline, Cant think of
>the third, res and RfD) into one, then you are bound to be overstaffed.
>
>DaveP
>
except that all these component companies had already downsized after
they were split from BR. I know - my job was one of those cut out!

regards




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