Re: Dubbo XPT
roy marshall (marsh@zip.com.au)
Fri, 17 Apr 1998 17:13:25 +0000
> "David Ready" <dready@xpress.net.au> wrote
>
> Hi All,
>
> First time that I have ever posted to this newsgroup. This morning we were
> booked on the 07:10am Dubbo XPT from Sydney Central. They couldn't get it
> going and announced a number of times, "there will be an indefinite delay in
> the train's departure". As we were only going to Wellington for a picnic to
> show some overseas visitors some more of NSW and as we only had a couple of
> hours
>
> We were told, by the Countrylink Reservations Manager at Central that, "this
> is the first time that this sort of delay has ever happened with the Dubbo
> XPT". The train did eventually leave at 07:43am but after we had already
> asked for a refund and asked at 07:35 if there was any update to the
> "indefinite delay". Is this true? Is the Dubbo XPT quite reliable?
The XPT finally made it to Orange at 1240 (due at 1154) and caused the
Broken Hill pass WL33 to leave at 1250 - 30 minutes late - behind
8101.
Best wishes Roy