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Re: [Melb] XP2001 Visits Melbourne
- Subject: Re: [Melb] XP2001 Visits Melbourne
- From: "Dave Proctor" <thadocta@spambait.dingoblue.net.au>
- Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 22:25:37 +1100
- Approved: thadocta@spambait.dingoblue.net.au
- Newsgroups: aus.rail
- Organization: My place - you have a problem?
- References: <8afhnu$2m5$1@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <8afun2$ha9$1@news1.mpx.com.au>
- Xref: bclass.spectrum.com.au aus.rail:3546
Rod wrote in message <8afun2$ha9$1@news1.mpx.com.au>...
>Christopher_Martin GORDON <cmgord@ecr.mu.oz.au> wrote in message
>news:8afhnu$2m5$1@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU...
>> XP2001 (which has been repainted into a new livery) visited Melbourne on
>the
>> morning of Friday 10th March for the first time.
>
>Rather fitting that it visits the birth place of Federation! and Australias
>fist Parliamentary home!
>Wonder why they decided to do that, I mean assemble Federal Parliament in
>Melbourne.
>We did have an impressive building to do it in...Perhaps Sydney did not, or
>were not interested?
Perhaps we had things to do in our Parliament House, whereas you Mexicans
were just posturing?
<g,d,r>
Dave