Re: GM's in Melb

["Roderick Smith" <rodsmith@werple.net.au>]

Clearly,
the committee *is* still needed: this thread arose because Steamrail
shifted its advertised tour from 20.2 to 27.2, deliberately clashing with
an ARE tour.  The following Saturday was vacant.
There is considerable evasion in the excuses for this action: people hoping
to have a tour and attend the airshow had both Friday night and Sunday
available for the airshow.

Steamrail is notorious for taking over dates allocated to other groups, by
ignoring the coordination committee system.

Ultimately, it is the railfan fraternity which suffers: the very people who
set up the organisation, and the people who it was intended to serve.


-- 
Regards
Roderick Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

David Bromage <dbromage@fang.omni.com.au> wrote in article 
> Notagunzel (notagunzel@bigfoot.com) wrote:
> > weekend, 2 diesel weekend tours, both with disappointing numbers. 
There
> > exists in Victoria a committee known as the Co-ord committee, which has
> > representatives of all groups, and whose idea is to avoid clashing 2
tours
> > on the same day.  Just don't tell the ACCC :o)  Catch is, only ONE
> > organisation doesn't attend - SRV.  Elecrail do, however.
> The committee isn't really needed these days as there aren't that many
> tours. It's a far cry from the days when there was some sort of tour
every
> Saturday and every Sunday, which is why the Joint Societies Excursions
> Committee was first formed.