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Re: KE hearse wagons
- Subject: Re: KE hearse wagons
- From: Craig Warton <craigw@wolf.net.au>
- Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 17:08:13 +1000
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Hi Philip,
Since it seems the only answers you have received so far are from the
idiot brigade, the following is a little bit on the hearses...
The 4 wheel ones (Post 1890 code KE) were built in 1865 and further
exa,mples in the 1880's. Were used primarily for services to Rookwood,
Woronora and (Great Northern Railway) the Sandgate cemetery line. The
last of the 4 wheel vans were removed from revenuse service in 1914,
although some were used as tool vans and on accident trains into the
1930s. . The BKE vans entered traffic in 1914 and were used on the above
services as well. The last of the bogie vans were condemned in the early
1950s - two of them were converted to SHO brake vans in the late 1930s.
Full details of these vans are included in the "Coaching stock of the
NSW railways" published by Eveleigh Press.
Regards,
Craig
Philip Shortus wrote:
> what ever happened to the KE hearse wagons of the NSWGR?
> Perhaps where all the other bodies that it carried are gone?