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Originally Posted by Rusty Instead of using training like we do. They using heavy trucks. Never understood why they didn't have more rail service. Originally Posted by BGTV8 Distances are

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Instead of using training like we do. They using heavy trucks. Never understood why they didn't have more rail service.
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Distances are too great for the volume of freight - ROI on cost of capital was negative. Where the freight volumes exist (like BHP and RIO iron ore mines at Mt Tom Price to Dampier and Port Hedland ports), they use fully automated trains that shift 80-120 million tonnes per annum.
Admit it - at the time there were only enough convicts in Australia to build the highways, not both those and rail.

Funny in a way - we have a similar problem in Canada re distances and volumes, yet it was the railway which forged the nation. Of course, we only had to get from the left coast to the right, not all the way around the perimeter like you.

Interesting differences.
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