Re: Overland Upgrade

["Roderick Smith" <rodsmith@werple.net.au>]

More detail in Melbourne's papers.  The work is in association with the
cutback to five nights per week.  First-class sitting will be eliminated. 
The AJs will be converted into lounge cars with dining tables for first
class passengers (just after the lounge cars were withdrawn).  ASR is
following in the psychological wake of its predecessor:
Trains are cruise ships for tourists, not intercity services.
Two classes: extortion and steerage.
Useless scheduling.

Ghan comes to Melbourne from November; continues to Sydney from April.
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Regards
Roderick Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

Lachlan Smith <lsmith@senet.com.au> wrote in article 
> For those interested, I just saw on the channel 7 news (Adelaide) where
GSR
> is to spend $1,000,000 upgrading the Overland rollingstock.