Carriages used in TV mini-series about Granville train accident

[Graham Duffin <duffin@pronet.net.au>]

This weeks Brisbane News (May 13-19 edition) has a three page spread
about the filming of the TV mini-series Day of the Roses which is about
the Granville train accident on 18 January 1977.  It is being made by
Liberty and Beyond Productions (the Brisbane based company that made
Fire and Medivac) and is due for screening on Channel Ten later this
year.  Filming is due to finish early June.  

According to the article most of the scenes are being filmed around
Brisbane. The crash scene is presently being filmed in the car park
between the Toombul Westfield Shoppingtown and the East West Arterial
Road heading towards Brisbane Airport.

I visited the filming compound at the car park to see what was happening
and there are four ex-SRA carriages plus heaps of seats laying around
all over the place (to depict disaster?).  One of the carriages has been
cut in half (also to depict disaster?).  A mock railway station has also
been built.

One of the carriages is in a candy colour scheme and still has its
number on it.  It says MCS61.  The other three carriages have been
painted the traditional SRA tuscan red.  Does anyone know what the
other three carriages are?  Where did they come from?

I heard that one of them was brought over from Perth - apparently it had
been there since the Flying Scotsman visit.  Does anyone know what will
happen to the carriages after the filming is completed?  Scrapped?

The article in Brisbane News says other filming locations are South
Brisbane railway station and Magistrate Court 21 on the 12th floor of
Brisbane's Central Courts building at North Quay which is being used
for the inquest.  Actors in the series are Rebecca Gibney, Paul Mercurio,
Andrew McFarlane, Peter O'Brien, Chris Haywood, etc.

According to the Brisbane News article the train crash and rescue is
a third of the mini-series and the rest is to cover the aftermath and
the search for the reasons why.

Does anyone know anything about the carriages used for the filming?

Graham Duffin.

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