Re: when did Vic stop using buffers?

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

>From memory, conversion to auto couplers started in the mid 1920s; removal
of buffers (because the program was so well advanced) commenced in the
early 1950s.

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Regards
Roderick Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

Brendan Freestone <brendo@primus.com.au> wrote in article 
> 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?