Oh deary me. Being stuck on an XPT for 14 hours doesn’t exactly evoke images of a great railway journey. If you choose to travel in economy class, you can guarantee that at least one group occupying your carriage will be noisy feral scum who are travelling on free Disability Support Pension travel vouchers.
Even if you escape the perils of economy class, the first class section is drab and even the sleeper cabins are fairly dire.
Hopefully they’ll just focus on the luxury trains like the Indian Pacific and The Ghan. QR’s longer distance trains seem to be a step above NSW TrainLink’s…