Re: Reopening NSW branch lines

[Barry Campbell <barryC@qimr.edu.au>]

M.B. and C.M.McDonald wrote:

> >Barry Campbell wrote
> >Townsville - Mt Isa doesn't require a change of trains. If you wanted to
> >go from Brisbane you'd use McCaffertys.
> >

> Rail's much more comfortable!  But .. it doesn't run every day.
> When I did some touring of QR a year ago (almost exactly!), the contrast
> couldn't have been much greater :-

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Rail may give you a bit more leg room but I can't agree that it's much
more comfortable. In any case if you want to go from Bris to Mt Isa, I
can't believe that days sitting up on a train would be better than a
much shorter trip on a bus. Of course you could get a sleeper, but then
you might as well fly.


Barry Campbell