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Re: QR wagon at NRC Melb
- To: ausrail@railpage.org.au
- Subject: Re: QR wagon at NRC Melb
- From: "Roderick Smith" <rodsmith@werple.net.au>
- Date: 6 Jun 1998 04:45:31 GMT
- Newsgroups: aus.rail
- Organization: Rail News Victoria
- References: <6ioq8h$bko$1@news.alphalink.com.au> <01bd8267$086c4e80$2512868b@cyrix-mmx-200> <6jpglg$m8e$1@gruvel.une.edu.au> <Pine.OSF.3.93.980519073601.10072B-100000@sparrow.qut.edu.au> <35643B44.2586@planet.net.au>
AFAIK QLX wagons were never bogie exchanged in revenue traffic, as there
was no balancing movement possible. Presumably they were tested when first
delivered.
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Regards
Roderick Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor
GOODWIN ALCO <alco@planet.net.au> wrote in article
<35643B44.2586@planet.net.au>...
> Neill wrote:
> > gOn 18 May 1998, David Bromage wrote:
> > > Rod Young (berlina@bigpond.com) wrote:
> > > I'm sure this isn't new, although not done very often. Weren't QLXs
run to
> > > Melbourne in the 1980s?
> > From what i have read the QLX and QGX were never ever used in bogie
> > exchange, it would be interesting to hear overwise.
> > I vaguely recall reading about a QR wagon which
> > > somehow turned up at Newport Workshops on bg transfer bogies.