Re: [NSW] Fast Electric Parcel Vans.

["Audrey Ngingali" <kinneara@webone.com.au>]

Do Silver City Comet DP power vans before fitout with new engines count? The
rebuild eliminated baggage / guards accommodation, thus turning DP's into
"true" locomotives.

No 42 footers come to mind, but HP (?) railmotors ended up as baggage /
guards and pulled a passenger only trailer.

keith malcolm wrote in message ...
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>Barry Campbell <campblbm@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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>> David Bromage wrote in message ...
>> >SAR had all-luggage Bluebirds (280 class?). Were there any other
>dedicated
>> >self-propelled goods/parcels vehicles in Australia?
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>> Rail Motors and XPTs is still packed but my memory seems to dredge up one
>of
>> the 42 foot motors as being for parcels. Was it a trailer or self
>propelled?
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>> Barry Campbell
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>The NSWR had a number of types of rail motor trailers built as
>parcels/luggage vans, ETP is an example. Im not sure if any of the 42'
>trailers were parcels vans though.
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>Dave Malcolm
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