Re: {vic} Daylight Overland

["Daniel Bowen" <dbowen@#DELETE#custard.net.au>]

There was coverage of it on the ABC TV news (Victoria) on Sunday evening. Or
was it channel 9? Not sure.

Anyway, they said that kids from the Variety Club were among those on the
first service, presumably courtesy of GSR.


Daniel
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"James C." <james_ccj@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> The first daylight Overland from Adelaide arrived Spencer Street on
> time tonight.
>
> Consists:
>
> BL33+Power car+Chairman class carriage+Indian Pacific 1st
> Twinette+Twinette+Roomette+Kookaburra club car+another Kookaburra club
> car(I assume this is for coach class)+2 coach carriages and baggabe
> car+1 motorail wagon.
>
> The train was very well patronised even in sleeper cabin, and the
> motorail wagon was full of cars. Everyone in Spencer street look into
> chairman class as there are beverage and beuatiful fruit platter on the
> dining table:-)
>
> BL33(sea train) have been frequently hauls Overland, it's almost the
> prime engine of Overland these days.
>
> XPT(with Federation colored power car) however was late(would be
> Overdue!!!)and still cleaning at 810pm, whole platform 1 was full of
> passengers, I think Countrylink can bring back the 7th XPT carriage
> with this many passengers.
>
>
>
> --
> Cheers
>
> James
>
>
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