Re: Daytime Overland

[Mark Bau <markbau@altavista.com>]

> From: dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage)
> Organization: Another Optus Customer
> Newsgroups: aus.rail
> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 06:50:07 GMT
> Subject: Re: Daytime Overland
> 
> This guarentees it will be a dismal failure, possibly a deliberate move on
> the part of GSR to can the Overland for good. Even the slightest late
> running ex-Adelaide will miss the XPT in Melbourne. It's also useless for
> weekend football traffic from Adelaide to Melbourne.
> 
> Cheers
> David

There you have it, God is "GUARENTEEING" its failure!

Commonsense tells you that this can only attract passengers. These timings
are designed towards the tourist/leisure traveler type of which there are
far more than an occasional football passengers. Yes they will lose the
weekend return traveler but anyone who has the slightest need for speediness
will probably not be taking the train in the first place.

I think this is a good move.

Mark