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The cars were numbered as sleeping cars numbers 11 to 14, previously Allambi, Tantini, Weroni and Dorai. The New Deal in 1983 resulted in the four Victorian Railways sleeping cars renumbered to SJ 281 to 284, and the carriages were repainted again, this time with orange replacing the blue, with V/Line logos on plates fitted to the left ends.
The cars were numbered as sleeping cars numbers 11 to 14, previously Allambi, Tantini, Weroni and Dorai. The New Deal in 1983 resulted in the four Victorian Railways sleeping cars renumbered to SJ 281 to 284, and the carriages were repainted again, this time with orange replacing the blue, with V/Line logos on plates fitted to the left ends.
The sleeping car or sleeper (often wagon-lit) is a railway passenger car that can accommodate all passengers in beds of one kind or another, for the purpose of sleeping. George Pullman was the main American innovator and owner of sleeper cars in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when railroads dominated intercity passenger travel.
The Victorian Goldfields Railway borrowed 80BW (ex 61ABW) from Steamrail, from 23 June 2012. This car was swapped for 67BW, which returned to the Steamrail depot on the same day. 68AW is privately owned and currently numbered 79BW. Around 2008–2012 a number of stored carriages had to be moved around Newport to make way for new suburban stabling.
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The operating and maintenance cost of the new train would be funded by both railways, approximately 60% paid for by the Victorian Railways and 40% by the South Australian Railways. A new fleet of carriages was built for the train and classed as the letter O. Four sleeping cars were imported from the United States and delivered in 1886 (as 1O-4O).
A number of conversions were carried out in later years, with the addition of beds to some to create sleeping cars, and buffet modules fitted to others to provide on-board catering facilities. The BRS buffet cars were the most recent conversion, made as part of the New Deal reforms on Victorian regional railways in the early 1980s.
Later, three more sleeping cars were built with a similar internal layout, and named Werribee, Indi, and Ovens. As far as can be ascertained, only the first fourteen cars were built as shared vehicles. The last two, Buchan and Wando, appear to have been solely Victorian Railways rolling stock, built for running on the Mildura line. [33]