Re: good news for The Overland

[james_ccj@my-deja.com]

In article <38e17a58.0@kastagir.senet.com.au>,
"Lachlan Smith" <lsmith@senet.com.au> wrote:
> The Overland may yet survive -
Hurrah!!!  appulse!!



> (This article on ABC site today)
>
> Timetables will be changed for Overland
>
> The Overland train service to Melbourne is to become a daylight trip.
> Great Southern Railway is trialling a new schedule with more than
> $1.5-million in assistance from the South Australian and Victorian
> governments.
wow! SA government! unbelieveable!


> Chief Executive, Stephen Bradford, says track improvements mean that
the
> trip has been reduced to 10.5 hours, allowing the same train to
travel to
> Melbourne during the day and to make the return trip overnight.
>
> Mr Bradford says the train will now travel four times a week, in an
effort
> to increase patronage to the break-even mark of 85,000 people a year.
4 times weekly? how may times per week would be day and how many times
would be night service?

> "At present, 72.000 people use the Overland, and we're hoping the day
train
> out of Adelaide will result in that increasing."
How about some promotion on newspaper, TV, radio, or movie theater,
cheaper fare? and maybe some connection to tourist attraction like
Grampians,


> "Our objective is, with rising fuel prices, to get people off the
roads and
> out of buses and enjoy rail going into Melbourne, and vice versa."
If marketing carefully, there are people out there who don't even know
there is a rail service between Adelaide and Melbourne


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Cheers
James


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