Re: XPT - First or Economy??

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

"David Bromage" <dbromage@fang.omni.com.au> wrote in message
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> When I travelled on the Brisbane XPT in December 1992, unfortunately I
> booked to travel at the start of schoolies week. The train was mostly
> about half full ex-Sydney, but economy was invaded by schoolies at
> Broadmeadow, many of whom had already been celebrating for some time.
> Knowing that only light beer was served on board, most had (illegally)
> brought their own alcohol. A night without sleep followed, but the car I
> was in reduced to about half full by Casino - mostly from passengers being
> removed. :)

Something similiar happened when I went from Grafton to Brisbane around
1995. I went to the crew, who said there was nothing they could do. When we
got to Casino, I made sure I was near the buffet when I got my phone out,
rang 013 (as it was then) asked for Finnimore, initial K (there was only one
in Sydney - you would think the GM of Countrylink would have a silent
number, wouldn't you!) and proceeded to ring him at 0330 asking him why his
staff were powerless in the face of unruly passengers. He was speechless (as
you would expect when you had just been woken at 0330 by a phone call) but
the next time I travelled, the staff were on the ball.

Dave