Re: Sleeping Car (heating)

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

"Marc Hunt" <march@pip.com.au> wrote in message
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> You're  right of course.
> I can remember one or two occasions when working late at SM Sydney when
the
> cry went up when a non-electric fitted 48 class would be rostered for the
> Cooma Mail. As I recall it was only Mark I 48's had the additional
> recepticale for electric heating.
> As for EAM's being heated from a power van, I don't think I've ever
actually
> seen a power van attached to a Non-Air train to provide sleeping car
> heating, unless it was a hangover from the old "Melbourne Express" days,
but
> as I say sounds perfectly reasonable.

The EAM's were part of the consist of the Gold Coast MotoRail before the
delivery of the FAM's - they needed to be through wired so that the power
van could power the rest of the train.

Dave