Re: Bluebirds are go?

[Gareth Lumsden <s9763278@minyos.its.rmit.edu.au>]

On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Michael Walker wrote:
> 
> Given they can obviously make enough Sprinters free to run the service like
> this, why don't they just use Sprinters and send the Bluebirds back to S.A.?
> It would save them time and money fiddle faddling round with what are
> obviously unreliable rail cars and in the hiring and testing and repair
> costs associated with them.
> 

There are not enough Sprinters. The spare Sprinters used to cover the
Bluebird's roster, are inturn being covered by loco hauled pass cars.

Gareth