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Re: Goodbye Overland
- Subject: Re: Goodbye Overland
- From: "Barry Campbell" <campblbm@ozemail.com.au>
- Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 22:41:14 +1100
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Maurie Daly wrote in message ...
>
>Why does there have to be a rail alternative ?
>For the 1% or less of the travelling public who prefer to go by train.
>A quick look at the airline and bus timetables show that there are 14
flights
>per day between Adelaide & Melb (thats just Qantas and Ansett) ,and at
least
>5 busses, (just including Greyhound and Vline.)
>The busses serve all the towns along the way.
>No reason to have a train at all unless one can be run at a profit.
>
>
<snip>
You've got it right Maurie. The outside-of-railfan-world-reality dictates
that there must be a reason for running a train other than the fact that we
like trains.
Get used to it, guys. The real world is coming.
Barry Campbell