Trains!

Feb. 2nd, 2004 01:58 pm
juliet: (Default)
[personal profile] juliet
I would very much like to go on this. Nice trains. I do actually intend to go to Australia sometime in the next couple of years - before I turn 30, basically, so that I can get a work permit & stay over there for 6 months or so. Would be *fun*.

Date: 2004-02-02 02:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kaet.livejournal.com
Yeah. I saw about The Ghan, and I want one, :).

Trans. Australian. Express.

Date: 2004-02-02 02:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] boyofbadgers.livejournal.com
Ditto. I wonder if there's an Australian Kraftwerk beavering away in a studio somewhere, composing an ode to this new line?

Re: Trans. Australian. Express.

Date: 2004-02-02 02:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] arkady.livejournal.com
I'm sure Severed Heads can be counted on to come up with something suitably surreal....

Date: 2004-02-02 02:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] catsgomiaow.livejournal.com
it looks like the Best Train Evah! mmmm. train!

Date: 2004-02-02 05:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wintrmute.livejournal.com
Despite being on 3000km track, I bet it'll still run on time a hell of a lot more often than British Rail :P

Also, it's a little amusing that for the equiv of UKP£160 (before discounts) you can get almost 2000 miles; whereas in the UK a standard open return ticket from London to/from Manchester is £182 (before discounts), for a travelling distance of 185 miles (as the crow flies).

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Date: 2004-02-02 05:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hsenag.livejournal.com
Despite being on 3000km track, I bet it'll still run on time a hell of a lot more often than British Rail :P

It's rather easier to organise schedules etc when you only have one line, rather than a complicated network - I realise there'll probably be branches etc at either end, but the vast majority of that 3000km will just require "put train on at one end and wait for it to emerge from the other".

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