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Re: [QR] Rollingstock question
- Subject: Re: [QR] Rollingstock question
- From: krel4203@netconnect.com.au (Krel )
- Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 07:51:53 GMT
- Newsgroups: aus.rail
- References: <Ybj94.2652$n23.9263@ozemail.com.au> <38663fcc.0@newsin2.apacinternet.com.au> <6GI94.71$Ad1.5993@nsw.nnrp.telstra.net> <38675dcc.0@newsin2.apacinternet.com.au> <386aced0.0@news.topend.com.au>
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999 13:14:49 +1000, "John McCandless"
<johnmc@topend.com.au> wrote:
> > > And of course all true Rail Transportation Connoisseurs would know they
>> are
>> > the conveyance of choice for passengers offering on both the Emerald -
>> > Yarakka Mixed and Hughendon - Winton Mixed.
>>
>> I think you'll find they use TLV van's for passengers. That's what they
>were
>> designed for.
>>
>
>True enough for quite some time - I travelled in a TLV when I went to Yaraka
>in
>1990 - but nowadays the TLV is all but extinct.
>
>You see, they needed underframes to make the GPSE coaches from.......
>
>"My" TLV (1834) is now a sleeping car of some description, and I doubt that
>I will ever travel in it again.....
Your TLV became QHLS (Queensland Heritage Luxury Sleeper) 1834 and was
the fouth car on the GSPE ex Melboune 30/12/1999.
Cheers
Krel
VGR website http://www.castlemaine.net.au/~vgr/
VGR Delivers the Goods - weekend of Goods, Mixed and Passenger trains - May 2001.