David Bromage <dbromage@metz.une.edu.au> wrote in article
<5q1im9$5ll$4@gruvel.une.edu.au>... > Peter Neve (nswsrca@ozemail.com.au) wrote: > >One for our panel of experts and advisors, please. > > > >In the mid to late 1980s, a charter XPT set ran through to Richmond. > >I don't recollect the facts or the date, but I had an idead it was a > >charter FROM Richmond to somehwere. I don't think the XPT returned > >to take the people back to Richmond after the forward journey. > > > >Can anyone out there advise the date and any other details, please! > > This will make a great addition to the XPT pages if anyone has details. > > Does anyone have details of XPTs running to other unusual locations? I > know an XPT ran the last train to Corowa. There was also a business or > legal charter to Melbourne a few months before the regular service > commenced. >
An XPT ran the official opening train on the Muswellbrook to Ulan line on
15th October 1982.
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Cheers Krel
"The Universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we
can imagine" - Clarkes second law.
Railway rules and regulations are the same.