Re: [VIC] Enthusiast Tours vs Tourist Trips (was: high speed tours (was: [VIC] R766 and R711 Ballarat tour.))

["Steve Dalton" <daltongang@optusnet.com.au>]

Hey listen,  here guys,

Dont go knockin the Steamrail Hot Dog,

There the best I have ever had

Steve D.

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James Brook <ajmbrook@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> Almost all of Steamrail's 2000 tours apart from the 38 ones are not
completely enthusiast
> tours. Even the diesel day tour to Echuca on February 5 will have lunch
"at one of the fine
> hotels or restaurants located in the heritage wharf precinct." On the
Quambatook tour a few
> years ago, you had lunch on the train, ie: a Steamrail hot dog. If people
want to go on a
> more tourist style trip then they should go on the Echuca weekender or the
Steamrail family
> type tours. I think Steamrail should run a few enthusiast trips every
year. They shouldn't
> try to introduce tourist style elements into almost every tour they run.
For a rail
> enthusiast the whole point of going on one of these trips is the journey,
not the
> destination. I know I would rather be travelling than spending a few hours
in some town with
> nothing much to do. The ARHS always run real enthusiast trips and they
seem to have alot
> more people on them than some of the Steamrail tours. The one real
enthusiast trip Steamrail
> is running next year is on the weekend when many people can't go on a
tour! (I'm not the
> only one) I think Steamrail could have planned it on another weekend, even
if it had to be
> in 2001. Because of this I can't go on one of the few broad gauges lines
left in Victoria
> that I haven't been on (Quambatook - Robinvale). I just hope they run a
diesel weekender up
> that line soon. 1998 was one of Steamrail's best years for a long time.
2000 is looking
> rather ordinary.
>
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> - James Brook -
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