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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.
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.
The Manor series is a fleet of 42 lightweight streamlined sleeping cars built by the Budd Company for the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1954–1955. Each contained five bedrooms, one compartment, four sections and four roomettes. The cars were named for distinguished English Canadians.
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 ...
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The first batch of E-class carriages were built between 1906 and 1911, with 38 AVE 1st class cars, 16 ABVE 1st/2nd composite cars, 39 BVE 2nd class cars, 25 DVE guard's vans, 10 ESBV, 2 EES, and 2 EEB mail vans, 6 Sleeping cars, and 2 Parlor cars; a State Car was built in 1912, having a similar design to that of the Parlor cars.
BS cars 207, 203, and 205 (ex AS cars 5, 10, and 14) and BRS cars 221 and 222 (ex AS cars 6 and 16) were sold to West Coast Railway in April 1995 following a nearly two-year lease. They were later joined by BRS223 (ex 12AS) and BS201 (ex 11AS), leaving V/Line with cars BS202, 204, 206, 209, and 211 (ex cars 2AS, 4AS, 8AS, 1AS, and 3AS ...