Re: high speed tours (was: [VIC] R766 and R711 Ballarat tour.)

[James Brook <ajmbrook@ozemail.com.au>]

James Brook wrote:

> Craig Haber wrote:
>
> > Just something to take note of with regards to your earlier posts James
> > (r.e. use of K cars).  It's getting harder and harder to get train paths.
> > If you're going to run at 80km/h it's very hard to get paths anywhere, and
> > you can't hold as many (if any) photostops.  We didn't have time for any on
> > the way home with the T's (which was a real shame - two T's on the Parwan
> > curves would have been great), we had to connect with 8237 at Footscray for
> > passengers who'd come from Geelong and beyond.

I just remembered one other thing. On the recent Oaklands tour there was a K car on
the overnight train. Did Steamrail actually book people into that car? If I had
booked on a tour that was advertised as a train consisting of wooden cars I wouldn't
be too happy about being shoved into one of those, especially after paying for the
overnight option. It also seems a bit odd as there were four extra wooden cars with
nobody in them that were left at Benalla.

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