Although HSR is a bust in SpecFic Australia of 2058, Medium Speed Rail seems viable with a ‘slow’ 200km/h service from Cairns to Brisbane. Another excerpt from Andrew Roff’s ‘Here are my Demands’.

Regardless of mode, the problem of thin markets remains & governments walk away from either direct service provision or paying for Community Service Obligation services from private operators.

Absolutely. So much of the port rail infrastructure was pulled out and the CBD freight infrastructure fell to urban renewal.

Too late I’m afraid. Listed & sold.

Am keen to get them out the door to recoup my auction spending !

Picked up at auction recently what looks like a full set of CountryLink A4 size holiday brochures from 1998. All bar the North West brochure feature the XPT. A bonus was the ‘welcome aboard’ brochure pre-1994 (no mention of sleeping cars). Enjoy! P.S. they might be for sale if people are interested.

If you wanted someone competent, you’d get Assistant Commissioner Claude Lebel (Day of the Jackal)

Departing right on time, a fully booked 3-car Xplorer set departs Canberra (Kingston) station with the 5pm SP36 service bound for Sydney this afternoon.