Re: Any news on the Mildura Passenger Line?

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

"MattyQ" <mattyq1009@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
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> Railway Rasputin3 <james_ccj@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> > IIRC, one of the option for Mildura service return is a 3 times weekly
> > night Sprinter service. Imaging sitting in Sprinter for at least 7
> > hours in a smaller legroom, smaller seats and not so smooth ride
> > OVERNIGHT!!
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> I can imagine that in three letters.................. XPT.

At least the seats recline in an XPT (they don't on a Sprinter) and you are
not rubbing knees with the person in the next seat (like some seats are on a
Sprinter) and you don't have underfloor engines (like you do on a Sprinter).
Melbourne to Albury was bad enough on a Sprinter, I shudder at the thought
of Melbourne to Mildura (even on a daylight trip), although if there was
some internal refurbishment (reclining/rotating seating) it would not be as
bad.
--
Dave

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