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Re: Airline change of Gauge!
- Subject: Re: Airline change of Gauge!
- From: "Barry Campbell" <campblbm@ozemail.com.au>
- Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 19:17:57 +1000
- Distribution: world
- Newsgroups: aus.rail
- Organization: OzEmail Pty Ltd, Australia
- References: <38C1F476.E62C1C91@enternet.com.au>
- Xref: bclass.spectrum.com.au aus.rail:3013
Chris Brownbill wrote in message <38C1F476.E62C1C91@enternet.com.au>...
>I was mucking about just now on the travel.com (or Uniglobe.com) site
looking
>for online timetables and airfares. When I requested the timetable for a
>Melbourne to Hamilton Island flight on 3rd June, the list returned included
>Ansett Flight AN64 which is listed as a one stop service departing at
10:05am
>and arriving at 2:20pm - but the interesting thing is that its marked as
Change
>of Gauge! What the heck? I presume this means change of aircraft en-route
but
>I've never heard it called that before. Is this some sort of hangover from
rail
>terminology which the travel industry clings to, or are planes now
travelling on
>tracks?
Or does it refer to the time change between Melbourne and Hamilton?
Barry Campbell