Re: (NSW) How good are our trains?

["Barry Campbell" <campblbm@ozemail.com.au>]

Roderick Smith wrote in message <01bf7226$2d284200$468817d2@rodsmith>...
>There has just been a mention of one in misc.transport.rail.europe :
>Suedostbahn's Zuerich - Eisiedeln in Switzerland, which has a bar car on a
>~40 km journey.  I recall that one passenger was able to purchase and
>consume a beer in the equivalent of Melbourne to Richmond.  One of the
>lighter interburban railways in the Solothurn area runs a bar in the back
>cab of an articulated tram (as does a German operator).
>
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I catch a train from Beenleigh to the Valley (In Brisbane for the
southerners) which is about 40km. I can't see what use a bar would be. I
would have to say anyone who wants a beer at 7am is a bit suspect. Of
course, going home might not be such a bad thing.

Barry Campbell