Re: QR Moree extension

[daproc@bigfoot.com]

In article <6m7or1$k69$1@gruvel.une.edu.au>,
  dbromage@metz.une.edu.au (David Bromage) wrote:

> It doesn't cost any less to run a goods to Dirranbandi today than it did
> when the passenger car/van was attached. They carry drovers on the trains
> in special cars, so why not ordinary passengers?
>
> You'd only need to run a train, say, twice weekly as a composite sleeping
> car and a sitting car attached to a container train. Toowoomba (for
> dinner) and Goondawindi (for breakfast) have refreshment rooms so you
> shouldn't need a dining car.

The problem is that an advertised passenger service has to run to a timetable
- a goods train (admittedly with drovers accommodation, but a goods train all
the same) can leave as soon as it is ready, thereby resulting in savings in
crew costs (they aren't sitting around waiting for the timetable to catch
up), etc.

Hope this helps,

David "The Doctor" Proctor

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