Re: Mudgee Tour

["Graeme Cleak" <gcleak@optusnet.com.au>]

Err.  Err.
If you paid $7 for one return journey on the Sydney Light Rail, the
Conductor must have charged you in Mexican Pesos, as all the literature
states $4.50.  Perhaps you could ask any of your travelling companions what
happened.

I'm sure that the FS car that I rode in on Sat was a luxury car in 1939 or
whenever it was built, but now, well --

Nevertheless the Ausloco group were no doubt suitably impressed with the
Clyde product noise,  but we didn't seem to see many freight trains, which
is less than should be expected in the Premier State.


-
Graeme Cleak


B. <gunzel412@dingoblue.gunzel.net.au> wrote in message
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> If you don't mind, I'll just bore you with my observations of this
> trip.
>
> Ran the 2100 Down? Ansett SYD flight ex MEL, this hunk of junk
> left 33 minutes late a/c late arrival and a AWOL pax, this then
> caused their baggage to be searched down and expelled from the
> bowels of the plane.  PWM's?
>
> Crashed into Sydney, and sleazed down to the station.  The price
> of a one way ticket from Domestic to Central is $10.00, this
> really is an obscene ripoff of considerable magnitude.  For $9.90
> I can travel all day anywhere in Melbourne.  The train was filthy
> too.
>
> Landed on Central Station far too early in the morning to catch
> WL41 06.59 down Mudgee Nut Spcl, locos consist & times as noted
> elsewhere.
>
> Was seated in a luxury car, with premium opening windows, (just
> the thing for sniffing in the diesel fumes).  There was an occo
> (possession for those from north of the border) somewhere in the
> western suburbs, but apart from a parallel run with 2 track
> machines no activity was seen.
>
> We were run through by a railmotor of some description at the
> Penrith Down Refuge, but it seemed to take a while for the
> signaller to make the road after it passed.
>
> The photostop management was a bit of a dogs dinner, the idea was
> that everyone was to gather in the Club cars in the middle of the
> train, but because the location/timing of the photostops was
> somewhat hazy, there was a standing crowd in the Club car's at one
> point just hanging around like sheep.  Why they didn't want
> everybody just using the most convenient door at each stop is
> beyond me, it really blew out the time needed for each stop by a
> fair bit, as getting the punters through the aisle and out the
> door is the bottleneck.
>
> The best photo of the tour was the last photo on the return,
> however since the 42 was leading exposing a plate was out of the
> question.
>
> The return journey was undertaken with the luxury car (with
> premium opening windows) as the 2nd car behind the locos.  So the
> audio properties of the accent of that small hill just on the up
> side of Lithgow was not too bad.
>
> Sunday morning saw a tour of inspection of the modern electric
> street car line.  Purchasing a tram ticket off a conductor was a
> funny feeling.  Not many pax though.  $7 for one return journey to
> the end is again a bit steep.  <press play>  For $7.40 I can ride
> all the trams in Melbourne all day.
>
> The trip back to the airport was on a set with open windows (an
> XYZ set or something).  Bit cleaner too.  At the Domestic Station
> there was an informative screen informing me that "Windows cannot
> detect a mouse connected to my computer".  As a pax I'm glad I was
> told that.
>
> At the airport I saw rubbish bins.  So what you say?  If the
> airport can have them, why can't Cityrail.  Wierd.
>
> Return to MEL was by Tigermoth Airlines (trading as Impulse), the
> terminal at SYD for them and the Colourblind Airline is a tin
> shack a considerable routemarch from the Station.  Is there no
> room in the main building for these other operators?  Would be a
> pain in the rain, as there is no shelter or covered walkway.
>
> Now you must be thoroughly bored, so I'll stop.
>
> --
> B.
>
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