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Re: QR short of cattle wagons
- Subject: Re: QR short of cattle wagons
- From: James Brook <ajmbrook@ozemail.com.au>
- Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 17:19:48 +1000
- Distribution: world
- Newsgroups: aus.rail
- Organization: Victorian Railfan Web Site - http://www.railpage.org.au/vr/
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- Xref: bclass.spectrum.com.au aus.rail:16005
David Bromage wrote:
>
> Chris Reardon (creardon@metz.une.edu.au) wrote:
> > I know from personal experience that most of the cattlemen of the NSW north
> > coast lament the day that the SRA stopped transporting livestock, especially
> > into the Riverina, which was a popular spot for agistment.
>
> One of the private operators is reportedly seriously looking at livestock
> transport using livestock containers fitted to standard container flats.
The VR used to do this in the 70's with cattle containers fitted to KMQ
wagons.
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