Re: [VIC] Misleading advertising on a tour brochure

["deano" <dsma@pigpond.com>]

Heritage is simply defined by most modern dictionaries as "that which is
inherited".
Whilst most of us have come to have a deeper understanding of the term as it
is applied to
rail...and most things historical for that matter when applied in this
context it can simply mean anything other than new.

"James Brook" <ajmbrook@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> I don't know if anyone else here has seen the brochure for the Classic
> Railway Tours trip to Maryborough and St Arnaud, but I think it is very
> misleading. This is the statement about the trip on the brochure:
>
>    "Did you miss the early 1900s
>     Experience rail travel of a by gone era in
>     restored 1906 style heritage carriages with
>     opening windows and compartment seating, or
>     enjoy the comfort of historical steel air
>     conditioned carriages from the ex Sydney train,
>     Spirit of Progress.
>     The Recentrly resored AVOCA Dining Car will
>     be attached to our train, with its Tasmanian Oak
>     tables & chairs you can sit down and enjoy a
>     cuppa enroute.
>     Hauling our train will be the famous R711
>     Steam Locomotive and 2 heritage T Class Diesel
>     Locomotives in Victorian Railway BLUE &
>     GOLD livery."
>
> There is a photo of R707 hauling Seymour's wooden cars right next to
> this statement and the term "Heritage Steam Train Tour" is used in the
> heading. While most of the train can be classified as heritage, you can
> hardly describe R711 as heritage. While they don't actually say R711 is
> a heritage loco, everything else is described as heritage, the tour is
> advertised as a "Heritage Steam Train Tour" and they have a photo of a
> normal R, not R711. In addition to this, the VR didn't run their
> passenger trains with an R class and two T's so this combination is not
> very historical. While it is fair enough to describe the carriages and
> the two T's as heritage, I think that the use of a very modern loco and
> a strange combination of locos means they shouldn't advertise the whole
> trip as a "Heritage Steam Train Tour". If you don't know much about R711
> and you see a photo of a normal R that can't be identified as R707
> (except for the huge nameplate), then you would probably expect to see
> what is in the photo, not what will actually be hauling it. Everyone
> seems to be using the term "Heritage" quite a bit these days, but very
> few operators do it properly and this is just another example.
>
> --
> - James Brook -
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