Re: [QLD] Red Rattlers be damned!

[Barry Campbell <barryC@qimr.edu.au>]

Peter Dwyer wrote:

> scrivener <roywilke@notanispatall.net.au> wrote in message
> 3a76ea38.597652@news.bit.net.au">news:3a76ea38.597652@news.bit.net.au...
>
> > >Brisbane had very old swing-door wooden dog-box cars that I remember
> > >being pulled by steam locos when I visited there when I was very young
> > >in the 1960s, and some were still running being pulled by diesel locos
> > >when I spent a year there (living in Warrawee Street Toowong, my brother
> > >still lives in the same house) in 1969-70.  I can't remember the colour,
> > >they may have been red. They may have been green. Or both. They were
> > >damned archaic I can tell you.
> >
> > You're talking about the "Evans" coaches which were introduced in the
> > early 1910s and remained in service until about 1980.
> >
>
> They were still in service on the Pinkenba line in 1984....
>
> These are the bench seat types with the individual doors, I presume?

And to Gatton in 1991.

Barry Campbell