Re: XPT's Reduced

["Paul Jones" <dj_wiseguy2@yahoo.com>]

Yeah!!! Bring on the dance club car!!! Now there's innovation!

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Pj.

"Rjaygee" <dartmouthmotel@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> If Country Link want to compete they should chuck out first class and the
> buffet and sleeping cars and convert them all to sit up tourist class and
> charge $30 for a one way trip to Brisbane and Melbourne.  Really try and
> attract the low end poor and back packer passenger.  For food put in
vending
> machines.  On the Nth Coast run they could even try a rave car. But under
no
> circumstances buy new equipment as its just not possible to make money in
> face of the cheap air fares.  The passengers travelling first class are
> pensioners topping up their $10 fare.  If pensioners etc didn't travel by
> train who would be on them?  The caveat I place on all this is the
Brisbane
> and Melbourne runs only as the bigger country destinations might have some
> possibilities as the volume of passengers may not be high enough to
attract
> a number of cheap airlines.  I believe the air fares to say Albury are
still
> very high.  Sorry to be gloomy but I wish there was another way out of
this.
> Cheers
> Rod Gayford
>
> "Michael Hendy" <spam.sucks@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> > Dave Proctor wrote:
> >
> > > "David Bromage" <dbromage@fang.omni.com.au> wrote in message
> >
> > > news:3AD40502.1D6E996C@fang.omni.com.au...
> >
> > >
> >
> > >> Jack wrote:
> >
> > >>
> >
> > >>> From April 29 when the XPT fleet should return to 2 XP's plus 6
> >
> > >>> trailers, it looks as tho the sets will be further reduced to 5
cars.
> >
> > >>
> >
> > >> Thanks to the airlines for this one. Passenger numbers on the XPT to
> >
> > >> Melbourne and brisbane have gone through the floor in recent months.
> >
> > >
> >
> > >
> >
> > > Well, what would you rather do, pay $55 and be there in just over an
> hour
> >
> > > with polite, helpful staff and a meal thrown in, or pay about the
same,
> be
> >
> > > on a train for 10 hours with surly, rude and arrogant on board crew
and
> >
> > > below standard catering? Even for pensioners using vouchers going to
> >
> > > Brisbane or Melbourne, the amount they have to pay from the border to
> >
> > > BNE/MEL makes the airlines look extremely attractive.
> >
> >
> > Not for BNE. You can't beat $22 return no matter what way you look at
> > it. (vouchered of course, but still, show me some other way to get there
> > at that price!)
> >
> >
>
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