Re: [Vic] Ex-Overland carriage at Talbot

["Darren Hodges" <@vic.australis.com.au>]

"Adam Dunning" <adamdunning@start.com.au> wrote in message
3a276569@news.alphalink.com.au">news:3a276569@news.alphalink.com.au...
> In article <905h9a$sg3$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, james_ccj@my-deja.com says...
> >
> >While I was travelling to Maryborough today on VLP's
> >half-hour late non-airconditioned coach. I noticed at
> >Talbot a what it seem like an ex-Overland
> >carriage(with OL livery) parked at Talbot railway
> >station yard. Anyone know the number/owner of this
> >carriage?
>
> I did hear a while ago, and saw the car about the same time, that it had
been
> brought by a couple a number of years ago, and they had intended to turn
it
> into a bed & breakfast.  As of yet, it looks like nothkng has been done
about
> it.
>
The Talbot railway station is being restored and made into a railway museum.
Already an interesting collection contained therein. The owner is living in
the building.