Re: QR Moree extension

["Barry Campbell" <campblbm@ozemail.com.au>]

David Bromage wrote in message <6m8fjm$r27$1@gruvel.une.edu.au>...
>M.B. and C.M.McDonald (Michael.and.Colleen.Mcdonald@xtra.co.nz) wrote:
>>When I visited Charleville last March I thought that support was a bit
>>thin.  Would dearly love to see a well-filled passenger train.  A loco
>>breakdown meant that all 16 passengers for the 6 or 7-carriage train to
>>Brisbane had to be conveyed by mini-bus to Morven.  Maximum loading on the
>>train can't have been any higher than 30.
>
>I take the point that loading can be a bit light, but it is merely a
>glorified mixed train. If QR invested in some modern diesel railcars
>(maybe a version of the Australind) and ran a daylight service things
>might be different.
>

The reason the loading is a bit light is that the people who travel on the
train are either pensioners or railway employees on holiday passes.
Everybody else who travels by public transport to those places travels much
more quickly, efficiently and cheaply (to the taxpayer) by McCaffertys.


Barry Campbell
>Cheers
>David