Re: Goodbye Overland

["Andrew" <atailby@mpx.com.au>]

> Fair enough, GSRs fares are high,no doubt about it , but they need to be .
> Running trains these days is an expensive business.
> Overland cant make any money.
> In addition there is also the very high proportion of rail travellers who
> travel on some sort of concession fares.
> >This is exactly what USA managements were accused of doing in the early
> >1960s to eliminate passenger trains completely.
> I dont beleive for a moment that GSR want to eliminate the Overland.
> They certainly would want to eliminate an unprofitable train service.
> But they are a private company,not a Govt social service.

if the train dont make the money they will make them all go by bus like many
country lines in nsw that are now done by bus as the goverment saw no reason
to keep the trains going where there wasnt many people using that service
andrew