Re: Where will the inter urban carriages come from for the Olympics

[keithm@commslab.gov.au (Dave Malcolm)]

In article <7j7uaf$hvo$1@merki.connect.com.au> "Dagz" <dagz@goulburn.net.au> writes:
>From: "Dagz" <dagz@goulburn.net.au>
>Subject: Where will the inter urban carriages come from for the Olympics
>Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 17:18:50 +1000

>At present the Endeavour train sets from Goulburn are usually packed during
>the school holidays with commuters who leave their vehicles at Goulburn to
>take advantage of the cheaper fairs compared with the country link booked
>service.
>The Country Link service from Canberra is usually booked out unless you want
>to pay the extra for a first class ? service. How will the service cope with
>the extra connuters wanting to get to Sydney for the Olympic Games when the
>service cannot cope with normal school holiday traffic.
>Have you ever tried to book a seat on the train out of Canberra even on a
>normal friday evening service.
>Unless you know at least a week in advance that you will be travelling you
>have no show of getting a booking as a economy (normal budget) passenger.
>Every holidays and on the occasional weekends when my dayghter who lives in
>Canberra wants to visit me she has a near impossible time trying to secure a
>seat on the regular commuter service.
>What is the government going to do about  the hundreds of extra passengers?
>Allow them to stand,  there are no spare endevour or explorer sets to speak
>of and what will happen if their is a breakdown?
>Will they run sets with serious fume problems or motors not functioning
>properly or with broken air conditioning. That has been their answer in
>school holidays according to my ex and our daughters experience.

Perhaps their going to hire cars and locos from the heritage operators, just a 
thought.

Dave Malcolm