Re: Steamrail should be renamed VR

["Stuart Thyer" <s.thyer@anatomy.unimelb.edu.au>]

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In article <CODX4.9$307.1708@nsw.nnrp.telstra.net>, "Mike Hunt"
<grimegrime@hotmail.com> wrote:


>Thinking out aloud,Why doesn't Steamrail change their trading name to
>Victorian railways,VR for short.Steamrail seems a tad irrelevant these days,
>yet lots of people still remember the "Vicrail" and or paternal "Victorian
>Railways" with almost affection.

Ummmm we'd have trouble fitting it on the headboard. Probably have to fit
sideboards to the engines to put that much writing on ;-)
But more importantly the name is used by another company.
Also, Steamrail says pretty much everything about what we are, a steam
railway. Might sound simplistic but the message has to be understood easily.
Not everyone has fond memories of the VR, only railfans. The early 80's
still saw many services operated by carriages built 60 year ago, Werribee
services operated by a W class or at best a Y class (with PL cars), some
suburban services operated by wooden rollingstock built before the turn of
the century. We love the sound of it, but the public didn't. That's one
reason the gov't of the day changed the trading name when it upgraded the
passenger fleet, to cut completely away from the bad reputation the VR had
developed in later years.

>I wonder what an R class would look like painted up as an S class steamer?

I wonder what an R would look like in reverse livery of red with black
deflectors... yum.


Stuart Thyer
Steamrail