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Re: Queensland Railways [Was: etc. etc.]
- Subject: Re: Queensland Railways [Was: etc. etc.]
- From: Owen Cook <rcook@pcug.org.au>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 11:44:40 +1100
- Newsgroups: aus.rail
- Organization: TIP
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- Reply-To: rcook@pcug.org.au
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 08:14:01 GMT, ianst@refer.to.sig.au (Ian Staples)
wrote:
>Of course, later on, in the late 50s, there was the serious problem of
>surviving that stretch from Gladstone to Marlborough where you could
>only get that awful Rockhampton beer (Mac's, IIRC). From Marlborough
>north you were back in familiar Cairns draught territory. (Not that
>it was a worry to we sub-21 students of course. ;-)
Before they introduced the Sunlander, one of the great memories I have
was the railway restuarants. As a kid and non drinker, I would watch in
amazement as the train slowly pulled in to say Ingham, and before it had
stopped, there was a flood of people streaming off for, not food, but
beer.
Later I lived in Melbourne and the six o'clock swill, so I got an
appreciation of the 30 minutes of hurley burley for an otherwise sleepy
town.
Owen