Re: 37 Car Ghan to leave Adelaide, November 16.

["Roderick Smith" <rodsmith@werple.net.au>]

This question has surfaced before, but I would have to search to find the
answer.  When all IP sets were a standard 13 vehicles, double-set running
was common.  There was at least one instance of triple-set running (ie 39
vehicles without counting the locos or motorail vehicles), AFAIK in the mid
1970s while recuperating from derailment (or flooding) delays.
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Regards
Roderick Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

arthur marsh <marsh@ties.itu.int> wrote in article
<Pine.OSF.4.03.9811121731050.10754-What is the record length for an
Australian passenger train
> (excluding mixed trains)?
> On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, < Tell > wrote:
> > The Adelaide Advertiser has reported that Great
> > Southern will be running a 37 car Ghan to the Alice on
> > the 16th of this month.
> > It will be a record breaking train for GSR, the report
> > added.  It would also appear that the 2 NR's are
> > included in the 37.!