Re: Railways across Australia 3/7

[krel4203@netconnect.com.au (Krel )]

On Sun, 4 Jul 1999 08:23:31 GMT, mauried@commslab.gov.au (Maurie Daly)
wrote:

>One of the interesting snippets in this episode was the stop over at Cook at 
>the interview with the towns 3 permanent residents .
>It wasnt clear to me exactly what the 3 residents actually did other than they 
>worked for the Railways.
>The obvious question is "which Railways".
>Who actually owns the town of Cook?
>It used to be an AN town , but now that we dont have an AN I wonder.
>
>ASR possibly.

They work for ASR as barracks attendants. NRC also use the rest
accomodation there.

>Also does the IP have to be refuelled at Cook or can a NR get all the way from 
>Adelaide to Perth on a single tank?
>
IP gets Port Augusta - Kalgoorlie on a single tank. Not sure if they
still top up the tank at PA but definately Kal. Water tanks on the
pass cars are topped up at Cook.


>cheers
>
>MD
>
>

Cheers

Krel

Steamfreight 99 at Victorian Goldfields Railway - July 17-18 1999.

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