Re: good news for The Overland

["Rod Young" <freight_man@hotmail.com>]

Ah!! Privatisation....finally!  previous Daylight Adelaide's worked...now
watch ASR make some real money  ;o)

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Hobsons Bay Model Railway Club Inc.
Operators of Australia's only 'Australian' Model Railway Show
Every Easter in Melbourne.
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Lachlan Smith <lsmith@senet.com.au> wrote in message
38e17a58.0@kastagir.senet.com.au">news:38e17a58.0@kastagir.senet.com.au...
> The Overland may yet survive -
>
> (This article on ABC site today)
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> Timetables will be changed for Overland
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> The Overland train service to Melbourne is to become a daylight trip.
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> Great Southern Railway is trialling a new schedule with more than
> $1.5-million in assistance from the South Australian and Victorian
> governments.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> "At present, 72.000 people use the Overland, and we're hoping the day
train
> out of Adelaide will result in that increasing."
>
> "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."
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> Lachlan Smith
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