A MAJOR sheep meat abattoir in central New South Wales has its products back on the rail after a horror month of landslips and derailments caused by widespread flooding.
In the past fortnight, almost all access to Sydney was cut for Dubbo-based Fletcher International Exports, which sends most of its product through Port Botany. The company is one of the country’s largest sheep meat exporters and normally sends four trains to Sydney per week.
The Hunter line has been flooded at Maitland and a landslip at Blackheath has closed the rail through the Blue Mountains for the past fortnight….
