Re: QR going national?

["Peter Cook" <glt0145@ozemail.com.au>]

oh Graham you have be listening to people who know very little. Here is the
fact on cost for Mainline electrification.
Goonyella Freight cost $10.89 fer freight tonne to electrify
Blackwater System cost $13.75 per freight tonne to electrify.
These are in 1984 dollars. Overall cost / Tonnages for 1984

Source Ford Bacon and Davis Consulting Engineers Project Public
documentation.

The biggest (Cost wise) and most political was the electrifying of the
Gladstone to Caboolture North coast section coming in at over $100 per
Freight tonne.


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glt0145@ozemail.com.au
Peter Cook

Graham Fry <fryg@sydpcug.org.au> wrote in message
37F1FCC1.44AE@sydpcug.org.au">news:37F1FCC1.44AE@sydpcug.org.au...
> > Exhorbitant? If they are exhorbitant, how come Queenslanders pay less
for
> > their electricity than anyone else in the country? Hmm? If our coal
haulage
>
> I am not sure how up to date you are with your facts on electricity
> pricing. I think you  will find in the de-regulated market down south
> that electricity prices are lower. It will be interesting to see what
> happens when long extension lead from Armidale to Toowoomba is completed
> and Queensland joins the SE Aust grid.
> I don't have any knowledge on the rates QR is paying for electricity but
> on a recent trip through the central coalfields a number of railway
> people were suggesting that QR made the wrong decision to electrify the
> coal lines due to the high maintenance costs as well as high energy
> costs. This might have some truth as the new locos for coal working on
> the Moura line are diesels even though apparently there was
> consideration given to electrifying the line but it was not economical.
> One driver at Gladestone was saying that each time he had to make a stop
> and restart a 130 wagon coal train it cost $500 in electricity charges.
> I don't where he got the figures but when your drawing 12,000 kW it
> could be true!
>
> <snip>
>
> Graham Fry