Re: Newcastle - Melbourne trip just completed

["tony bailey" <mercuryworldtvl@one.net.au>]

This is easily solved by having as many cars as necessary allocated as
"wayside" cars -

e.g - the late lamented "Spirit of Progress" on the standard gauge had this
arrangement.

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Tony Bailey
Mercury World Travel
Mercury Travel Books
mercuryworldtvl@one.net.au

"Les Chandra" <les_chandra@asparagus.hotmail.com> wrote in message
3ac12e09$1@news.iprimus.com.au">news:3ac12e09$1@news.iprimus.com.au...
> The other problem with the Sydney-Melb XPT is it confuses too many
markets.
> It is really an all-stops local train in NSW that happens to run through
to
> Melbourne. Last time I took it I was next to two girls going to Wagga
Wagga
> who announced that there was no need to try to sleep, so they'd talk all
> night. And they did.
>
>