Re: Bromage really is GOD!!!

[G.Lambert@unsw.edu.au (Geoff Lambert)]

David Langley <del@ancc.com.au> wrote:

>MarkBau1 wrote:

>> OK, I was wrong, The Overland did run as 5 divisions in the early '70s. Dare I
>> question your deity.

>But it didn't. Max 3 divisions. The day train is not The Overland.

>David

I asserted here last week that the Overland did occasionally run to 3
divisions and cited both memory and documentary evidence to support
this.  [I think David may have been the person who recently mentioned
in a e-mail to me that even three divisions probably never ran
(David?].  Rod mentioned in a post that 3 Divisions were not scheduled
until the early to mid 1970s Easter services.

Anyway, I have reviewed all my Easter and Christmas WTT books from
about 1955 to about 1973 and I cannot find a single instance of 3
Overlands.  My "observations" notebooks froim the 1960s contain no
such evidence either despite my memory to the contrary.  But these
books are not complete.

I would say that if 3 Divisions ever ran, they ran on on the Up on
Christmas Eve 1965 and on the Down on Good Friday Eve possibly 1972
(?).

No evidence for more than 3 at any time in history.

Geoff Lambert