Re: XPT - First or Economy??

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>]

"Bradley Torr" <btorr@bigpond.nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Dave Proctor wrote in message ...
> >"Bradley Torr" <btorr@bigpond.nospam.com> wrote in message
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> >> Dave Proctor wrote in message ...
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> >> >Nah, North Coast has only light beer and wine (wine only with meals),
> all
> >> >other Countrylink services have heavy beer and pre-mixed spirits as
> well.
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> >> Any reason for this that you know of?
> >
> >Light beer is the same as cordial - and I don't drink cordial. Spirits, I
> am
> >rather partial to bourbon, but they only have that ratty Jim Beam (prefer
> >Makers Mark myself).
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> Dave:
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> I didn't ask you what drinks you like; I asked you if you knew why they
only
> sell light beer on North Coast Countrylink services.

I now, I was being frivolous.

I believe it dates back to the introduction of the XPT's on the
Brisbane/Murwillumbah runs back in 1990, when loadings rose (as well as the
riff-raff level). They made a decision then to only serve light alcohol, and
it has stuck.

In 1993 when the Melboring XPT was introduced, it was a straight
substitution, rather than a radical timetable rejig, which is what happened
on the North Coast. Perhaps they thought that the loadings would not differ
compared with what they had.

It is basically a hysterical reason (spelling error intentional).

Dave