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rainynight65@feddit.de to Australia@aussie.zone · 2 years ago

Sleeper trains are making a comeback. Why are ours being axed?

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Sleeper trains are making a comeback. Why are ours being axed?

www.smh.com.au

rainynight65@feddit.de to Australia@aussie.zone · 2 years ago
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Sleeper trains are enjoying a resurgence in Europe, but the sleeper service between Sydney and Melbourne is set to be scrapped.
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    All good points. I don’t think I could sleep sitting up overnight, so that is why I would opt to fly. The only attractive thing about the train is I can try sleep laying down. I guess I will give the new train a try when it comes along but it isn’t sounding great considering the length of the journey

    I do like the start of the article where he talks about the dream train sleeper journey… it sounds magical

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      @kowcop @naevaTheRat Heads up @timrichards, there’s quite a discussion about your article over on Lemmy.

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        @ajsadauskas @kowcop @naevaTheRat Everyone loves talking about trains. :)

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          I don’t even know what a train is

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        we’re on lemmy. In Aussie Zone. Where else is article?

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          @naevaTheRat The author (Tim Richards) is a fairly regular Mastodon user. (Lemmy posts also appear on Mastodon.)

          I thought I’d tag him in so he can see the discussion…

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            Oh did you mean there’s a large discussion on masto? you wrote lemmy and I got confused

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              I think they thought Tim richards wouldn’t realize the conversation was here on lemmy otherwise. With the username tagging, this user could be accessing the thread through mastodon

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                right I can’t read

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