Re: (NSW) How good are our trains?

["Roderick Smith" <rodsmith@werple.net.au>]

My SOB comments were about going home, but I have just got back from
various European countries where beer for breakfast is more prevalent than
coffee (more malt than in WeetBix).  On my first European trip I was
surprised that beer could be obtained from vending machines at stations on
Sunday mornings.  Now it is a non event.  Only Australians are hung up
about the supply and consumption.

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Regards
Roderick Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

Barry Campbell <campblbm@ozemail.com.au> wrote in article 
> 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).
> 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.