Re: [NSW] RUB carriage Set Arrangements & Info

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>]

"David Bromage" <dbromage@fang.omni.com.au> wrote in message
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> Hunslet (hunslet@cia.com.au) won a Nobel Prize for literature by writing:
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> > Robert Bushby wrote:
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> > > Like Marc Hunt, I was also a fan of the RS cars.
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> > You will therefore be pleased to read that one RS remains.   All the
others were
> > converted to ABS dining cars (okay, one was converted to a sitting car).
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> One of the North Coast Daylight sets had an ABS by the mid/late 70s. I
> think the other had a mere RDH.
>
> BTW, when did the Riverina become a DEB set?

Around 1976/77, I believe, after the failure of the 1200 class. It was
definitely a DEB in 1980 (I caught it from Junee to Sydney).

Dave