>David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au> wrote some very
>good background info which I snipped for brevity:
>The question which still bothers me is why the NSWPTC
>was still using wooden passenger stock, when it was
>known some 50 years or more prior to Granville that
>wooden passenger stock offered little protection to
>it's occupants.
Snip
Why were they still running timber bodied passenger stock on mail trains in
1989? Same reason not enough steel cars.
David Malcolm