Re: QR going national?

["WhaleOilBeefHooked" <daproc@sd5.mailbank.com>]

Alex Borodin <yaropolk@hotmail.com> wrote in message
938596433.302245@diddley.primus.com.au">news:938596433.302245@diddley.primus.com.au...
>
> < Tell > wrote in message <38207b59.4006841@news.ozemail.com.au>...
> >"Peter Cook" <glt0145@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> >>
> >> It's not that QR won't let competition in it's just that no-one does it
> >> better in the sunshine state than QR. we run the best Heavy Haul
service
> >> (Coal), Long distance Passenger trains and Intermodal transport
> operation.
> >> To continue to supply these services we have to grow. But i would like
to
> >> see expansion into the mining industry.
> >
> >
> >In one word Peter, BULLSHIT, nobody is allowed on the
> >Queensland skinny gauge except QR, give us a break.
>
>
> What about Airtrain? Airtrain are planning to be running trains down to
the
> Gold Coast directly from Brisbane Airport via the city stations. From the
> City onwards, they are running on the same track as QR trains and
therefore
> are in direct competition with them.

The government allowed this to happen because in XX number of years it will
revert to public ownership - they were getting a fantastic asset for
practically nothing.

DaveP