-- Chris Stratton Wollongong, NSW, Australia stratton.chris.cp@bhp.com.auDavid Proctor wrote in message <6gk89n$7c3$1@wbn.sydnet.com>... > >Chris Stratton wrote in message <6ghl7r$5jg5@atbhp.corpmel.bhp.com.au>... >>I too remember watching the "Silver Train" as we called it speeding north >>from Wollongong in the late 60s and at that time my aunt worked on board >>selling refreshments through the train. But unfortunately all the Budd cars >>have been cut up. After a derailment at, I think, Redfern at least one >>suffered underfloor damage and the decision was made to remove their >>engines. > >I believe, although I stand to be corrected here, that the decision to use >the Budd carriages as loco-hauled cars was taken due to increasing >mechanical unreliability - they were being used as loco-hauled cars even >before they had the engines removed. > >>They then became loco hauled on the South Coast Daylight for a few >>years. After that two of them used to run a service from Griffith to Junee >>to connect with the main line trains. I remember seeing a third one at this >>time in Junee roundhouse but it was damaged and out of service. I know some >>were cut up at Redfern, I don't know if they were all brought to Sydney to >>be scrapped. >>BTW there was only one set of Budds, but the Tullochs were later used in >>Wollongong as well after they were a failure on the Riverina Express. > > >The 1200-class (Tulloch carriages) were actually the best cars on the system >(from a passenger viewpoint!) The ride was better than anything else going >around, and the seats, particularly in first class, were superb. > >Regards > >David "The Doctor" Proctor >daproc@bigfoot.com > >