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    What locomotives would work far north line timber trains?

    Before we get too far ahead of ourselves, there's nothing in that article that says traffic will start regularly from G'mas Jn. In fact, there's nothing to suggest FNL traffic at all. This is simply an article regarding planning permission for the new sidings. Admittedly, the quote, "The...
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    West Coast Railways Timber Trains.

    These logs appear to have been cut to fit between the stanchions, I would imagine. A few years ago, Russells looked at creating timber 'crates' (even created some I think?), loaded onto Megafrets. If you look at the table on Page 20 of this report, you'll see the payload per metre is...
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    West Coast Railways Timber Trains.

    I do agree that sometimes simply starting a 'service' is better than a trial. For example, I have been trying to get DRS to use the Georgemas nuclear terminal for general freight (as they promised when they built it back in 2012), but they keep wanting to demonstrate the terminal as a 'trial' -...
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    West Coast Railways Timber Trains.

    For clarification: - There were more men on the ground on that one occasion because it was the first working of the trial and 'top brass' were there to follow proceedings. All other workings in the 6 weeks since (as was seen in other videos), have involved 4 people, including the driver of the...

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