The other interesting aspect was the logo on the vehicles, which was NQX. I
have a feeling this is the northern freight division of QR but am open to
correction.
The road transport industry are certainly getting keener to take more freight
- glancing through a truck magazine at the newsagency there was brief mention
of a new B Double being trialled by Linfox which is capable of carrying 36
pallets, achieved by maximising the trailer length and using a slimline Volvo
Globetrotter cab. Are any of the railways around Australia looking to
maximise their wagon design the way the road companies obviously are? An
extra pallet or two means less wagons to shunt, etc etc.
As a complete aside, I have fogotten the originial thread about the carriages
at Toombul, but there was an article in Saturday's Courier Mail about them.
Apparently they are going to be used in a movie/miniseries about the
Granville Railway Disaster. No idea of numbers - the photo in the paper
showed a couple of the carriages sitting on their underframe, bogies etc
having been removed.
Peter Neeve