Re: Old passenger car. was: Re: Stawell to Grampians - and Halls Gap?

[fjones@pipeline.com.au (Frank Jones)]

On Sat, 06 Nov 1999 14:39:02 +1100, John Duncan McCallum
<mccallum@melbpc.org.au> wrote:

>
>
>Gavin Potter wrote:
>
>> There was a railway line (it wasn't a tramway) from Stawell towards Halls
>> Gap. It actually ran to the quarry at Heatherline were sandstone for most of
>> Melbournes main buildings was quarried. There was an intermediate siding but
>> I can't remember its name.
>> About 2 mile of the line was used as a long siding at Stawell during the
>> 80's to cross long trains before Deep Leed and Great Western Loops were
>> installed.
>
>Quite a few years ago, there was the remains of a screw coupled
>passenger carriage off the
>end of this line. I haven't been through the area by train since, but I
>wonder if it is
>still there. It was very rusty and had obviously been there for many
>years when I saw it.
>The location was remote from a road.

This was a Tait car - I think it was used many years ago as a mock
'disaster' training exercise for local emergency services.