Wingatui race day train booked out
Wednesday, 5 November 2008, 11:42 am
Press Release: Get the Train group
Wingatui race day train booked out
Otago voted with
its feet in favour of regional rail services yesterday when
the Taieri Gorge Railway charter train to Wingatui was
booked out. Extra bus services were organised in addition to
the train to take racegoers to the racing club's Melbourne
Cup Day.
Taieri Gorge Railway operations manager Grant
Craig said that 400 tickets were sold, the entire
allocation. The train had 12 carriages and locomotives were
attached at either end to save the need for
shunting.
"People could go out and have a good time
without worrying about drinking too much," Grant said. "And
then we brought them all right back to the centre of
town."
Wednesday's 'Otago Daily Times' (p2, 5 November)
had a nice picture of the train's departure from
Dunedin.
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from Get the Train
group
getthetrain.blogspot.com
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