Dunedin RWC Trains Unpopular

in General RWC 2011 Trains by AKT — September 13, 2011 at 10:36 pm | 0 comments

Good on Dunedin City Council for underwriting a train service for Rugby World Cup games.
A pity the public did not respond. So they have pulled the plug on some of them.
The weekend game did OK but “very light” bookings for the Waitati to Dunedin train service for the upcoming two RWC 2011 matches has resulted in the decision to cancel those two trips.
The Council says it is not financially viable to run the Waitati train for the England v Georgia and England v Romania matches but they will try to run a train for the Ireland v Italy game on October 2,

The Mosgiel to Dunedin and Waitati to Dunedin train services were well used for the first match. Almost 300 people used the Mosgiel service and about 130 were on the Waitati train.
The Council is using the Taieri Gorge railway for the service.

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