Re: Kuranda tourist train

Darryl Georgee (phaedrus@ultra.ultra.net.au)
Tue, 22 Jul 1997 18:01:11 GMT

mccallum@melbpc.org.au (John McCallum) wrote:

>In article <869468693.16795@dejanews.com>, pn1@rocketmail.com wrote:
>>Has anyone ridden the Kuranda (Queensland, Australia) tourist train
>>lately? What is the best side of the carriage to ride? Is it worth doing
>>the round trip on the skyway? Should one go up or down in the train. Is
>>up the hill the same as the up direction? Thanks.
>>
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>Hi.
>I have nor ridden the train lately. (I was up there last in 1985.)
>The best side of the train is definitely the right hand side. When going up
>the hill, the valley is on the right side. However, the cars in use at that
>time had one wide seat on the left and an aisle on the right. I spent most of
>time looking out the windows anyway.
>If I get up there again, I will definitely ride one way on the skyway.
>As far as Up/Down is concerned, unless it has changed, Down is TO Brisbane,
>and Up is away from Brisbane.

>> ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH! You go UP to Brisbane and DOWN to Cairns. All up trains have even numbers
>> eg 3936 Mail from C to B and all down trains have odd numbers eg 3C37 mail from B to C .

> Cheers,

> John McCallum
> e-mail address: mccallum@melbpc.org.au
> Phone 03 9478 4254. Member, Melbourne PC User Group.

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