Re: any hints for a long distance train traveller to be?

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

"Michael Hendy" <spam.sucks@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> <snippity snip>
>
> > Never done sleeper on the XPT myself, but it couldn't be any worse than
the
> > two cattle classes (pseudo first, and economy). In either of the two
cattle
> > classes you can't sleep.
>
> I've managed to sleep in cattle class.....
>
> It was on the Sydney -> Melbourne leg of my Mullumbimby -> Melbourne
> trip. That little junket cost me $28.60 one-way (ahhhhhhh travel voucher).
>
> Seriously though, I don't try to sleep, although it can be done.

Several hours at the Southern Aurora before departure can definitely assist
in sleeping.

Dave