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My question was whether fuel was delivered by road train, or railway train, as I was surprised you chose supplying mines as your example. Public railways and s
by Symbiote 3y ago
My question was whether fuel was delivered by road train, or railway train, as I was surprised you chose supplying mines as your example. Public railways and stations are irrelevant, North West Australia has plenty of private tracks [1], and I've found this site [2] which says some of the mines own rail tankers for fuel.
So for at least those mines, acquiring liquid or gaseous fuel is easy (safe + cheap).
[1] https://www.openrailwaymap.org/ https://www.openrailwaymap.org/
[2] https://www.pilbararailways.com.au/roy/roy.php https://www.pilbararailways.com.au/roy/roy.php, https://www.pilbararailways.com.au/bhp/waggons.php https://www.pilbararailways.com.au/bhp/waggons.php