Re: Multi gauge trains - was [NSW] Strange rails at Hurstville

[G.Lambert@unsw.edu.au (Geoff Lambert)]

On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 00:58:06 GMT, bscaro@hotmail.com wrote:


>One of the dubious honours one can award to the SAR (the world's most
>post-modern rail system (why have one loco livery or gauge when three
>will do ?) is that they've actually worked dual gauge trains- on the
>Wallaroo line.  Think one train was a sg 930, a bg OBF wagon and sg
>brakevan.  It happened some time in the early-mid 80s and was reported
>in Catchpoint.

I think this was more than a one-off.  As I recall such workings were
shown in the Working Timetable.  But it could not have been SAR in the
1980s. Perhaps ANR in the 80s or SAR in the 70s.

Geoff Lambert