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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Tulyar15 [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Murphy Siding [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Tulyar15 Meanwhile Futuremodal will no doubt be delighted to hear that yet another OA operator has now got the go-ahead to haul coal down from Scotland. The infrastructure co Jarvis have now got an operating licence to run trains and will be running coal trains as well as maintenance trains. [/quote] Does this mean Jarvis is both an infrastructure co, and a train operating co, on the same line? I thought they were supposed to be seperated? [/quote] That was how it was supposed to be , although EWS and the other OA companies make a lot of money from infrastructure contracts. I suppose we're progressing back towards a vertically integrated set up. Stagecoach the bus company owns Porterbrook, the Rolling Stock co. To be fair Porterbrook is the only ROSCO that has taken speculative risks by order trains before it has found a user for them. The other two ROSCO's are owned by the banks and just act like profit maximizing monopolists (but in the longer term they will face competition from manufacturers leasing stock to train operators). I agree with John B's comments about the foreign coal. On the Avon Valley Railway (which I am a volunteer worker on) we had a duff batch a couple of weeks ago. Ironically it blocked the tubes of our Polish "Ferrum" 0-6-0T. John B - you are quite correct about "Tulyar" - it was (is!) the name of my favourite "Deltic" diesel loco. [/quote] I have no problem with a certain amount of vertical operations within the open access structure. The whole point of open access is to make sure willing transporters are not barred from using the ROW. If the infrastructure owner also wants to run trains to take advantage of a transporting opportunity, so be it. Could result in a conflict though if another transporter wants a piece of that action.
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