Re: Booked out Melb XPTs

[David Bromage <dbromage@omni.com.au>]

Maurie Daly wrote:
> Its interesting to compare also what we have today ,to what there used to be.
> In the Melb - Sydney case when we had 3 loco hauled pass trains per day in
> both directions ,it would have been a very rare case for any of them to have as
> few as 7 cars, the Daylight being the only likely possibility on Tuesdaye and
> Wednesdays.
> The other two , namely the SOP and Aurora always had upwards of 12
> cars with 17 cars on the weekends being quite common.
> So XPT situation has drastically cut the carrying capacity with also no
> capacity for holidays like Easter or Xmas.

In railway officialdom, this is called an improvement.

Cheers
David