{"id":3366,"date":"2023-11-06T02:31:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T02:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/watching-the-train-go-by\/"},"modified":"2023-11-06T02:31:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T02:31:05","slug":"watching-the-train-go-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/watching-the-train-go-by\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching The Train Go By"},"content":{"rendered":"

But Whose Train? Gina’s Train!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Georgina Hope Rinehart (n\u00e9e Hancock, born 9 February 1954) is an Australian billionaire mining magnate and businesswoman. Rinehart is the Executive Chairman of Hancock Prospecting, a privately owned mineral exploration and extraction company founded by her father, Lang Hancock.<\/span><\/div>\n

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She was Lang Hancock’s only child, and when he died in 1992 she succeeded him as executive chairman. She turned a company with severe financial difficulties into the largest private company in Australia and one of the largest mining houses in the world.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Rinehart is Australia’s richest person. Her wealth reached around A$29 billion in 2012,<\/span><\/div>\n
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It is her train! And she has just bought a new loco for it.\n
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It is pink to mark the company’s involvement in fund raising for breast cancer. The loco is operated by Roy Hill; but that’s not the name of the driver. Roy Hill is a mining company within the Hancock group; one of Gina’s businesses.<\/p>\n

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And there’s moye:-<\/p>\n

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Maybe we need to anglicise some statistics. The railway line is 344 km long which is 213 miles<\/span>\u00a0in real money. This is just a tad over the distance from London to Hull.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Gina’s train is usually 2.7 km long. over one mile and a half<\/span>!<\/div>\n
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So maybe we watch the train go by!\n
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Did you count all four locos? fbb did. Did you count the wagons. Neither did fbb.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u00a0Roy Hill does his mining here …\n
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… in the remote Pilbara area of Western Australia. Oz is, geographically speaking, BIG.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Iron Ore …\n
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…\u00a0 is dug from huge good quality deposits loosened by explosives …\n
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… and loaded into huuuuge trucks …<\/p>\n

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… and they are huuuuge!<\/p><\/div>\n

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And pink!<\/p><\/div>\n

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The ore is transferred to said long train …\n
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… which then trundles to Port Hedland.\n
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… where it is transferred to ships for distribution world wide.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The port is huuuuge as well!<\/p>\n

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One of her ships, with a familiar name …\n
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… is, of course, PINK!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Back at the mine, a new processing plant, which recovers more of the ore magnetically, is also huuuuge …<\/p>\n

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… and pink.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The new pink battery loco will tun with three normal diesels and will cut the fuel cost significantly.<\/div>\n
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The company will be in the pink<\/span> – as they say.<\/div>\n
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Reminder:-<\/div>\n
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Brief Blog Because\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
Bus Bloke is Blotto after\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
Busy Bible Bonanza with<\/span><\/div>\n
“Blazing Bengals”\n
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Fireworks\u00a0<\/span>concluded the Sunday Fellowship meeting (with lavish afternoon tea).\n
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Well, they were very small indoor fireworks …<\/p>\n

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… which were much enjoyed by a slightly depleted congregation but with one surprise “guest”. Repeat display will take place after today’s meeting.<\/div>\n
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fbb mansions still stands, unscathed by the display!<\/div>\n
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In tomorrow’s blog, we explore a disused building.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0Next Bus Garage blog : Tuesday 7th November\u00a0<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

But Whose Train? Gina’s Train! Georgina Hope Rinehart (n\u00e9e Hancock, born 9 February 1954) is an Australian billionaire mining magnate and businesswoman. Rinehart is the Executive Chairman of Hancock Prospecting, a privately owned mineral exploration and extraction company founded by her father, Lang Hancock. She was Lang Hancock’s only child, and when he died in 1992 she succeeded him as…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}