filcorpRe a separate rail corporation. All these lines are...

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Re a separate rail corporation. All these lines are single track. Add a bit of extra track and you have an enormous possible increase in traffic. At an economic level what we are looking at is stupid. Most Governments are stupid but even they will wake up to what is going on. Single one way tracks running parallel, get real. Sooner or later this will be argued in the courts. Remember that land is commonwealth land leased to the companies and a lot of the infrastructure of the permanent way was paid for with Government grants.

Any kid with the intermediate certificate when explained the problem and given a texture would in fifteen minutes be able to draw a tiny bit of new rail to increase the traffic possibly 500 percent.

Even Rake off the TV program would rip up the majors argument in under half an hour.

An efficient nation cannot ignore this situation.

How can BHPBIO, RIO, and FMS argue that their system is near fully used? That argument beggars belief. Parallel one way lines with passing bays, they have to be kidding! Most people are unaware because they have never viewed the map of the Pilberra. Spend ten minutes looking at the map and decide what you would do with a combined rail corporation with a bit of extra track.

They are all using almost the same rolling stock, similar locomotives and basically the same unloading procedure.