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Re: Nat Rail

Henry Paddon wrote:

> Is Nat Rail running mixed service.

No.

> On Saturday I seen a Nat rail train near Rookwood. It was made up of
> NR49 four AK passenger cars NR117 the rest of the train was
> containers.

There were only three AK test cars, and the centre one was actually a FAM
(2384).  There were two locos behind the test cars.

> Why the pass cars between the loco's.

They were testing coupler forces, air pressures and accelerations on a 1500
metre train (7SB7).

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David Johnson
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