Whew, that was close.

My son told me tonight that they were given a briefing on some of those trains - it seems that some of them are driven by the train controllers back at base - there is no driver on board!

Ron

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Originally Posted by p38arover

(note: these are not CityRail trains, they are privately owned.

Ron

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You forgot to close your brackets. I didn't realise that there were private trains operating on the railway system. How does this work? I assumed all trains are state or nationally owned. Are the freight trains private?

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Originally Posted by Slunnie

You forgot to close your brackets. I didn't realise that there were private trains operating on the railway system. How does this work? I assumed all trains are state or nationally owned. Are the freight trains private?

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Don't know if this is still the case, but a whole bunch of trains, Tangaras I think, were sold to France years ago and leased back. Something to do with state govt. avoiding paying tax to fed. govt.

Cheers
Simon

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Originally Posted by Slunnie

You forgot to close your brackets. I didn't realise that there were private trains operating on the railway system. How does this work? I assumed all trains are state or nationally owned. Are the freight trains private?

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Re brackets - bugger! :)

All the NSW govt freight trains were sold off years ago. There are a multitude of operators running freight in NSW, e.g. Patricks, Toll, Qld Rail, Silverton, etc.

The State govt. only runs the CityRail and CountryLink passenger network. Outside Sydney's electrified area, the rail network is operated by ARTC (Australian Rail Track Corp) - for which my son now works (previously he was a signaller with RailCorp (the govt. entity).

Ron

you forgot the Dodgy bros;)