Re: Time for a Lecture

[Eben Levy <thekid@connect.net.au>]

Well, that is all and well but you still miss the point that it hardly ever runs
on times (ontime be the terms of more then 5 mins away from timtable)

Sleeping on an XPT is terrible.
The carraiges are often noisy with squekes from within or from under the
carraige. I have had mutiple trips where the bogie was banging......


I must admit I have not done a long distance trip on a coach for a fair while
but when I do trvel on coaches, no matter what time of day, you can sleep. why?
the seats ore more comfortable.

tony bailey wrote:

> TIME FOR A LECTURE
>
> 1 am somewhat amazed at the attitude of several contributors to this group
> about Countrylinlk North Coast services. So I am attempting to explain here
> a few BASIC facts of life.
>
> I realise that ABSOLUTELY NO ONE on this newsgroup will admit to travelling
> by Countrylink service, so forgive me if some of the things I say are a bit
> basic.
>
> If a member of the public (not a railfan. or a contributor to this
> newsgroup, for, remember, ANOOOTNWATTBCS ) comes in and asks me what times
> trains operate to Brisbane, I will firstly check EXACTLY where that person
> is going - Yes it is necessary - some people have no appreciation of
> geography at all - it is not uncommon to be asked if, say, Cairns is north
> of Brisbane!
>
> I will explain to  that member of the public that there are TWO services a
> day -
>
> One is an overnight service that arrive sin the morning,-
>
> Or there is also a morning service that arrives in Murwillumbah at 8.30 pm
> with a bus connection to Brisbane.
>
> You might be surprised at the number of people who opt for the day train -as
> well as opt for the coach to train connection at Casino from the Gold Coast
> in the morning.
>
> The point of this is that I generate additional revenue by selling people on
> the FACT of two possible train connections to Queensland each day.
>
> Some of you have been getting carried away by the termination of one XPT at
> Murwillumbah - do you think that if the line extended to Southport, that the
> XPT service would turn around at Murwillumbah?
>
> To the members of the travelling public, and to anyone selling tickets,
> there ARE two XPT services a day to Queensland - not one.
>
> All of  the ANOOOTNWATTBCS's reading this know there is only one XPT to
> Queensland a day - but somehow the travelling public think there are two!
>
> EXTRA coach services-
>
> (this is getting right off topic - but you should like this story)
> This should also appeal to those people who think that free enterprise road
> services are wonderful and can not do anything wrong, and NEVER EVER put
> public safety after the possibility of making a quid (no sir, not us!)
>
> I had a client who travelled by coach to Coffs Harbour every long weekend -
> he complained about how uncomfortable it was. but continued to travel by
> coach every long weekend until last Easter.
>
> I was surprised when immediately after Easter, he came in and booked by
> train to Coffs Harbour for Anzac Day - I asked him what was wrong with his
> regular coach service
>
> He told me that he was on one of those wonderful extra services on "Black
> Thursday" and the windscreen wipers were not working. If you are a
> Sydneysider, do you remember the Easter weather? If you are not a
> Sydneysider - consider wet, wet, wet.! The coach left on time and headed up
> the highway in the downpour, with absolutely no visibility from the front
> and did not pause except at Bulahdelah Mountain where the relief driver
> actually attempted to clean the windscreen in the downpour.
>
> Would you have even travelled on that coach?
>
> Tony Bailey