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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 first passenger cars built specifically for The Overland train service operated by the Victorian and South Australian Railways (V & SAR) were introduced in 1949. By the end of 1951, eight new sleeping cars and six new sitting cars had entered service. Additions to the fleet continued until 1972; in all, 44 carriages were built.
The car was repainted to Victorian Railways blue and yellow in 1959, and fitted with 50-ton aligned bogies in 1989. It was used on the Train of Knowledge to provide power for heating and lighting, and air conditioning for some vehicles. When that service was withdrawn, the car was allocated to the Seymour Rail Heritage Centre.
Via Rail refers to these as "service" cars. Dining car [15] 3 7400–7402 48-seat capacity; built out of unused sleeping car shells. Sleeping car [16] 57 7500–7589 10 double bedrooms. 29 are stored at Thunder Bay, Ontario. Baggage car/transition [17] 3 7600–7602 Used to transition between coupler styles.
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The cars were initially painted in standard VR dark red, and rostered for use on the Melbourne to Mildura overnight trains. While the cars were generally similar to the earlier joint-stock sleeping cars, they were exclusively built for use on the Victorian Railways system. [18]
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.
In conjunction with a new timetable of 18 November 2012, the H set fleet was reorganised to give three six-car sets as well as twelve semi-permanently-coupled three-car sets, giving an effective total of nine six-car sets in service. These trains usually provided peak-hour services to Bacchus Marsh, Wyndham Vale and Seymour, hauled by N and P ...