Re: [SYD] Former "Contura" carriage

["abp" <abp@ihug.com.au>]

<maikha_l@hotmail.com> wrote in message 958krf$t5i$1@nnrp1.deja.com">news:958krf$t5i$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
> To all ausrailers.
>
> This week, after looking through a railway publication, I had taken
> into attention of the former "Contura" Carriage (DCT- 9034, Alot to
> mention, most may have seen its webpage through the Cityrail website)
>
> Yes, to all, we like to see it as a very, very luxury V-SET carriage,
> with nice, thick, deep, soft, black leather lounges (just like the one
> in my home!), a kitchen and audio equipment, and normal Inter-urban
> seating on the bottom deck.
>
> But my attention has come to this, does anybody know where it is
> currently?
> I had heard back in September last year that it is now being
> refurbished into a normal passenger carriage again?
>
> If that is the case, where is getting this treatment?
> Anyone out there who can describe for me the condition its in?
>
>
> And one last request, does anyone have any ORIGINAL (Not the ones on
> the webpage!) pictures they would like to share of the Contura, before
> and may after?


DCT 9034 is currently at Flemington Maintenance Centre and has not been
converted back to how it originally was. When the yard at Flemington is
pretty empty you can see this car down near the buffer stops usually in a
road near the old yellow wash bug.

Adam