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Rail freight network facing death sentence, undercut by road and sea

Driver Wayne Blewden at the Pacific National yards in Chullora in Sydney. Picture: Toby Zerna
Driver Wayne Blewden at the Pacific National yards in Chullora in Sydney. Picture: Toby Zerna

Step by step death warrants are being signed for our great national railway network. Unless the community wakes up little will remain by the end of the decade.

The pride of Australian rail – the standard gauge link between the east coast and Perth – is rapidly losing freight market share to foreign-manned container ships returning from dropping cargo in Brisbane Sydney and Melbourne. With token operating costs, they can substantially undercut rail.

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