Re: Hope for Gippsland train service

["James C" <noemail@emailsux.com>]

and N set)
>
> Geoff Smithwick from National Express said at a meeting held in Bairnsdale
> last night that all they will be doing is extending the N class and N set
> service from Sale to Bairnsdale and they will not use Sprinters because
they
> are not optimised for longer distance travel.
True, Sprinters ride quality is not as good as N class,
not as spacious and can't provide buffet service.

I took the Shperpparton service this afternoon. It was only a 3 carriage
train but people queued for buying food/drinks from the buffet. And the
train wasn't even running during lunch time:-)

Cheers
James





>The trains will run at a
> maximum speed of 115km/h to keep competitive with driving a car. He also
> said that they will need an operating subsidy of at least 1.5 million
> dollars a year to run the service, if they want to run two trains a day in
> each direction they would need a subsidy of 2.5 million dollars.
>
> Nicholas Hurley,
> Bairnsdale, VIC
>
>