Re: Carriages used in TV mini-series about Granville train accident

[David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>]

David Johnson wrote:

> David Bromage wrote:
>
> > Speaking of fake train wrecks, a number of years ago there was an episode
> > of Police Rescue featuring a train crash. Does anybody know what cars were
> > used for filming? They were painted candy and fairly well damaged.
>
> They were a number of 600 class railcars.  I have many photos of this event, as
> it was done near where I was working at Chullora.  Another one of those
> long-term scanning projects. :-)  I'll get the numbers next time I see the
> photos.

OK, the carriages involved in this filming included 707/607 which were undamaged,
but derailed, and 603 which was placed on its side with 703 being placed on top of
it.  The filming was done on Monday 17/2/92.

The photos are at:

> http://www.railpage.org.au/pix/railcars/oops_Chullora_603-703-707_18-2-92.jpg
>
> http://www.railpage.org.au/pix/railcars/oops_Chullora_707-703-603_18-2-92.jpg
>


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