Re: when did Vic stop using buffers?

[cmgord@ecr.mu.oz.au (Christopher_Martin GORDON)]

: Presumably when we stopped using screw couplers.. AFAIK, a gradual process 
: going between the 1920's and the 1960's [Dont quote me on this, i may be 
: very wrong]

: >I've noticed steam engines with buffers in pictures, and I've noticed 
: early
: >I and IY wagons with buffers.
: >Does anyone know when Victoria stopped using buffers, and why. Did all the
: >wagons before that time have buffers and did they all get removed at some
: >stage?

You will also notice when the R class runs a pass train to Geelong there
is no buffers on the R.  

Also F317 had no buffers.


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