Re: Interurban Refurbishment

["Chris Downs" <cvdowns@ozemail.com.au>]

All the seats were recovered with the now standard green vinyl, much easier
on the eyes than yellow, and the carpets were replaced.  Perhaps the best
thing about the limited refurbishments (but almost purely from a rail fan
perspective) is that about eight motor cars continue in operation with Blue
Goose livery.

Chris

ROY HOWARTH <rhowarth@ihug.com.au> wrote in message
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> It's hard to tell the refurbished cars apart given the "minimalist"
> approach to the refurbishments. All they did was restore the interiors to
> their original state. They could have done a lot more to bring the
> interiors up to the standard of the DKM/DKT cars for example.
>
> Roy H
>
> eikkert@my-deja.com wrote:
> >I was read a bit of Simon Lane's verbal submission to ipart regarding
> >the fares and according to him the intercity refurbishment program is
> >nearly complete. I was under the impression they were going to refurbush
> >all intercity cars. I still see heaps of unrefurbished cars (mostly
> >DJMs, some DIMs and I think from memory DDT9211) floating about. What's
> >going on?
> >
> >
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