The cheapest IP fare SYD-PER is now around $2000 (off season). Seems
they don't offer seating only service any more.

I couldn't find a single bus service operator from Sydney to Perth,
presumably you would need to use at least 2 operators to do the trip
now. One website estimates the fare at about $600 each way. I flew
over on Jetstar last year for $250 return.

Brian

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Sent:16 Sep 2017 02:14:31 +0000
Subject:Re: [TramsDownUnder] Re: Sydney Airport chaos continues after
wild weather caused flight cancellations

There's the small matter of journey time too - stretching out 4 days
to 10 is fine if you have nothing else to do in life!
IP and Ghan are indeed hotels or cruise ships on rails. There is now
about 6 additional hours on the IP's trip compared to 1970 due to the
side tours along the route that they've introduced. There's also only
one train a week, not two. A return economy ticket in 1970 was $125
which, by the Reserve Bank's calculator, represents about $1,400
today. I think the pensioner rates have all but gone. Motorail is now
only available from Adelaide westwards.
I think my last trip to Adelaide was about 25 years ago. Sleeper on
Western Mail from Sydney to Parkes, breakfast at Parkes RRR where
another bloke was having a beer with his steak and eggs at 7 am! Then
Silver City Comet where the conductor thought we were too cramped in
economy and kindly put us in first class on a near-empty train, then
sitting car on IP from Broken Hill to Port Augusta, Bluebird to
Adelaide. Rode the Glenleg tram (H class) and Red Hens of course. Then
back by Bluebird to PA and sleeper and the whole works on IP as a
treat back to Sydney. That mixture represented the railway days now
long gone!
I think I'm starting to itch with interest in the NSL too as a result
of your frequent little tasters!
Tony P
---InTramsDownUnder@..., wrote :

So what do you expect when the train has been turned into an
overpriced land bound cruise ship for the useless parasitic rich ?
Aviation is like the mining industry - if it had to pay full
compensation for the environmental damage it inflicts it wouldn’t
exist beyond very limited parameters.
Tony G - too much NSL is never enough !