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steam3801
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8203
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Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 3:02 pm
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Great pics steam3801.. thanks for posting them, How was the trip?
Cheers Adam
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dalts 1985
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Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:57 pm
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| steam3801 wrote: | Not quite NSW rail, but as a NSW forummer, thought I'd show off & share some of the snaps from my trip last week... 
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Journey's end - Adelaide
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The ol' pass yard of APT... (KRPT to those of us, that are the old school) looks quite bare...
Those Overland cars in the background, if their sitting cars could be refurb'd & used on the current service as extra cars (or god & heaven forbid, if GSR got/decides to ever get serious about The Overland Service) a second consist to allow a daily service in each direction, a vast improvement in their token-guesture 3-days-a-week service in each direction on alternative days as currently...
"A vote for Labor means no more of Howard's bullsh*t |
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wongm
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Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 10:17 pm
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| dalts 1985 wrote: | | (or god & heaven forbid, if GSR got/decides to ever get serious about The Overland Service) a second consist to allow a daily service in each direction, a vast improvement in their token-guesture 3-days-a-week service in each direction on alternative days as currently... |
GSR would never do it because there isn't any rich overseas tourists, only cheap Australians who are subsidised by the Victorian and South Australian governments (as well as the Federal Government for concessions)
($1.5 million a year from Victoria in fact - source)
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Alyx
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Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 12:46 am
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I see that after the renovations, Keswick (Uh, Adelaide Parklands Terminal) still looks like a dump.
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dalts 1985
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Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 2:31 am
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| Alyx wrote: | | I see that after the renovations, Keswick (Uh, Adelaide Parklands Terminal) still looks like a dump. |
GSR APT AKA KRPT AKA The Dump (The hole in the middle of no where) are all perfectly suitable names for "The Joint"
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