Re: when did Vic stop using buffers?

["Barry Campbell" <campblbm@ozemail.com.au>]

< Tell > wrote in message ...
>"Roderick Smith" <rodsmith@werple.net.au> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
>
>Extraordinary, that it took 25 years.
>


I don't know. The first auto coupled vehicles generally in use in NSW were
introduced in about 1913 and the last use of buffered vehicles in general
traffic was around 1980 something.

But that's NSW.


Barry Campbell