Re: [Vic/SA] Very long Overland tonight

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>]

"Daniel Bowen" <dbowen@custard.REMOVE.net.au> wrote in message
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> "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.

Yeah, but the Aurora stood out near Footscray for about half an hour to wait
for the Daylight. I asked the conductor once what we were waiting for, and
he said that it was for the Daylight to clear Spencer St - why they could
not have put us away somewhere closer to Dynon is beyond me.

Dave