Re: Train travel question

["Chris Downs" <cvdowns@ozemail.com.au>]

I was booked on Greyhound's 1525 (from memory) Canberra - Sydney service 4
Saturday's ago.  I got a phone call telling me it was 4 hours late (originates
in Adelaide?).  Despite it being the end of school Holiday they got me on the
1500 departure - 14 other customers in total on the run!

4 hours goes close to my worst ever late running train, 5 hours late into
Sydney with 44228, 7 cars, 1 XP (for auxiliaries only) Brisbane - Sydney.  All
that and we didn't drop a minute on the running times between Grafton and
Taree.  Taree - Sydney we lost over an hour.

Chris

Jason <jasonp@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
news:20010519.214345.937370163.518@buffy.local...
> In article <YrhN6.555$Ld4.25535@ozemail.com.au>, "David Bennetts"
> <davibenn@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
>
> > Bowral, and are close to time at least 80% of the time, not marvellous,
> > but saying they are always late because you may have experienced a delay
> > or two is plain stupid.
>
> I got off 3 times. When I got back on it was over an hour late 2 out of
> the 3 times. The people who had phoned up Countrylink where told that the
> train was ontime. That's a pretty bad record.
>
> > Greyhound - what a joke.  The operator here went bust, and their buses
> > were breaking down all over the place, because they weren't being
> > maintained. Who wants to be jammed up in a bus all/day or night, unable
> > to move around, unable to get a tea or coffee when you want it.  Even
>
> But they've now been bought by McCaffertys. I've caught a lot of
> Greyhound buses over the last few of years. They're not perfect, but I
> can't remember waiting more than 30 mins for one and that was extremely
> rare.
>
> The bus is also generally quicker. It has a video and people don't
> usually bring their children. So you don't have them running around
> screaming and having water fights.
>
> > Countrylink has decent legroom and rudimentary refreshment facilities.
>
> I'll agree the food was quite good. Certainly better than your average
> road house.