Re: [SYD] Former "Contura" carriage

["Phil C" <cleaver@vianet.net.au>]

Hi - Any links to fuller information on this  contura  or better still   any
pictures
cheers
P

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"abp" <abp@ihug.com.au> wrote in message
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> <maikha_l@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > 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
>
>