Re: XPT Carriages at Hornsby

["Andrew" <atailby@mpx.com.au>]

one reason for the pfz is the phn is not working at the minute as it needs
repairs





Railway Rasputin <bob@fastlink.com.au> wrote in message
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> Rod Gayford wrote:
> >
> > That might change as they are presently installing fencing topped by
razor
> > wire around the Eveleigh Train Presentation Centre. I noticed some air
> > conditioned cars off the Griffith and Broken Hill service stored where
the
> > XPT cars are usually stored. Anybody know why this is so since I thought
> > they would have had only sufficient cars to run those 2 services.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> All the car sidings are supposed to be getting high security fencing.
> North Sydney car sidings amd Flemington Maintainence have it as well.
> The strange thing is that there are gaps in the fences. I suppose these
> will be filled in later.
>
> The loco hauled cars you see are spares. They did have some spare power
> cars but I have seen 3801 ltd's pfz being used instead of the phn.
>
> rgds