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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.
Three sleeping cars were constructed by the Victorian Railways in 1928 to supplement those used on the Mildura and other overnight services. They used a similar internal arrangement to the last two E type sleepers, Buchan and Wando, but were wider with steel panels used in lieu of timber slats for the sides, and a curved roof matching the Long ...
The Geelong Flier was an Australian named passenger train operated by the Victorian Railways and successors, running from Melbourne to Geelong from 1926. As the first officially-named flagship service of the Victorian Railways, the train took pride of place on the timetable, and operated with some of the best available locomotives and rolling ...
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.
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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).
During the early 1980s, the Victorian and New South Wales railway authorities were looking at merging the two overnight standard gauge trains, the Spirit of Progress and Southern Aurora, which would have freed some sleeping carriages for The Vinelander service to Mildura. Its sleeping carriages 1–4 and 11-14 could then be cascaded to the ...