Re: [Vic/SA] Very long Overland tonight

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

"Taliesin Walker" <taliesin@chariot.net.au> wrote in message
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> >BTW, the train was well loaded.  The passenger sitting next to him
> >elected to travel by train rather than fly, but would have been in
> >Melbourne before it finally left Adelaide.  She is unlikely to travel by
> >train again.
> Sure, but how often to planes run late? I've only travelled by air a
> few times but planes have run very late almost all the time, but
> perhaps I was unlucky.

When I was a kid, we took the Intercapital Daylight from Melbourne to
Sydney. Arrived 5 hours late :-)

The Southern Aurora back a week later was right on time though.


Daniel
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