Re: Free Olympic travel to/from Bathurst?

[Railway Rasputin <bob@fastlink.com.au>]

Jonathan Lau wrote:

> I was reading the Olympic tickets orderbook and found in the small print
> that free rail travel was available from Goulburn in the Southern
> Highlands, Nowra on the South Coast, the Hunter Valley and Bathurst in
> the west.
>
> If I recall, the only passenger trains stopping at Bathurst now are the
> daily Central West XPT and the once a week Broken Hill service. And both
> of them are run by Countrylink.
>
> How are they going to maintain a reliable service during the Olympics?
> and why doesn't CityRail run to Bathurst?
>
> Jon Lau

Bathurst now apparantly travels at Cityrail fares. I read it somewhere and
all the locals were yahooing all over the place about it.