Re: NSW carriage classes was Eight Car XPT sets on Brisbane XPT

["Chris Stratton" <stratton.chris.cp@bhp.com.au>]

Ken Neate wrote in message <6jjb2h$r2i$1@toto.tig.com.au>...
>
>I have no idea. However, I can recall that during the one of the 1980s
>Illawarra maintenance shutdowns, one of the PF or HPF cars on a DEB set


It was 908. I went to photograph it as it wasn't far up from Farmborough
Heights.

>using the Unanderra - Moss Vale link to return to Eveleigh for maintenance
>was destroyed by fire.  The ever faithful Illawarra Mercury reported the
>story quoting SRA sources that the train was a "900 class dead set".
>
>No wonder Stuart Littlemore used to give the Illawarra Mercury such a hard
>time on Media Watch.
>
<snip>
>The best source to understand the codings for NSWGR passenger cars (loco
>hauled) is probably Len Clark's book "Passenger Cars of the NSWR".


Or the long-awaited (and still coming) NSW carriage book by Don Estell et
al.
Regards,

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Chris Stratton
Wollongong, NSW, Australia
stratton.chris.cp@bhp.com.au