some info on the new competition

http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/rail-group-stays-on-expansion-track/2006/08/06/1154802756952.html

Full report above..

MELBOURNE-based SCT Logistics is gearing up to outflank Queensland Rail and challenge Pacific National, as the fight for business in the national rail market unfolds.

PN is a key strategic asset of the Toll Holdings behemoth. Its overwhelming market power in road, rail, air and ports is generating a potential coalition of opposing companies, ranging from QR to Linfox. However, SCT, a family-run rail and trucking company based at Altona in Melbourne's west, pioneered competition on the east-west rail corridor in the 1990s and still is doing its own thing.