Re: Wonderful, Customer-Responsive GSR

["Barry" <one@microsoft.com>]

Tom Zsolt wrote in message <01bd248d$417817a0$090d6a0a@vstk510a>...
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>Barry <one@microsoft.com> wrote in article
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>Barry Campbell wrote:
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>> I agree train travel is very pleasant but that is not the point. Air
>travel
>> is cheaper than travelling by sleeper and it doesn't have to be
>subsidised
>> by the rest of us. You don't see much on an overnight trip by train and
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>> most of the trips I make Tullamarine airport in Melbourne is more
>convenient
>> than Spencer St which is stuck in the middle of the bloody city.
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>Being stuck in the middle of the city is an advantage for a tourist.
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>Tom Zsolt


True it - but long distance train travel in Aust is still being treated as
if it was there as a point-to point transport medium which is the view taken
by many contributers to this ng. I think there is great potential for
tourist travel by train ie travel for the sake of it not just to get from a
to b. And to get back to what I said some time back - I don't see the
Overland as having a place in the tourist market.

BC