Re: Last use of EE loco on passenger train

[dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage)]

John McCandless (johnmc@topend.com.au) won a Nobel Prize for literature by writing:

> David Bromage <dbromage@fang.omni.com.au> wrote in message
> OeAC4.796$jb5.492599@news0.optus.net.au">news:OeAC4.796$jb5.492599@news0.optus.net.au...
> > What was the last use of an English Electric loco on a revenue passenger
> > train in Australia? I think it was Gatton to Ipswich on Christmas Day 1991
> > (a 1620?), which was also the last non-tourist use of wooden body
> > passenger cars in Australia.

> When did the Dirranbandi mail stop using it's wooden carriages? It would
> have been around the same time.

I travelled to Dirranbandi in July 1991. The sleeping car was withdrawn
(pranged at Toowoomba) not long after, and the car/van didn't last much
longer after that.

Cheers
David