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Railcar

Self-powered vehicle capable of operating as a single unit and often passenger carrying.

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References

At various points references are sited by placing a code inside of square brakets "[]". The various codes used are:

ah

Correspondence with Alan Hegler.

cpr_mm.yyyy

Catchpoint Magazine edition mm.yyyy (month.year). Catchpoint is produced by the Port Dock Station Railway Museum.

cr_nnnn

Commonwealth Railways Central Office File nnnn.

cr_plan

Commonwealth Railways Rollingstock Plan.

dc

Correspondence with Doug Colquhoun.

jb

Correspondence with John Beckhaus.

jbo

Correspondence with John Bollans.

gp

Correspondence with Gerald Petrie.

gsr

Great Southern Railway Literature and Press Releases.

kb

Correspondence with Kym Bird, also included reference to historic articles

• The 300-400 Class Railcars and 829-860 Class Trailer Cars of the South Australian Railways,Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin; p219-238, October 1985, Vol.26 No.576; p243-261, November 1985, Vol.26 No.577; p279-283 December 1985, Vol.26 No.578.
• The Fageol Railcars of the S.A.R,Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin; p219-238, October 1985, Vol.37 No.588.
• Brill Railcars of the South Australian Railways,Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin; p213-236, October 1991, Vol.32 No.528; p237-260, November 1991, Vol.32 No.529; p272-282 December 1991, Vol.32 No.530; p1-8, January 1992, Vol.33 No.531.

md

Michael Dix correspondence.

md

Correspondence with Matthew Reid of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

naa

National Archives of Australia - normally will be followe by a series reference number.

nrm

National Railway Museum correspondence.

pk

Correspondence with Peter Knife.

pl

Correspondence with Phil Leonard.

pm

Correspondence with Peter Medlin.

pmi

Correspondence with Peter Michalak.

pq

Correspondence with Paul Quinn.

rpf

Railpage Australia Forums.

rrc

South Australian, Commonwealth and Australian National Railways Rollingstock Record Cards. These were large cardboard cards, one per vehicle, maintained by the workshops that showed all major alterations and repairs done to that vehicle. They are generally a lot more accurate them the computerised "TIMS" records. See the "TIMS" reference for more details.

sf

Correspondence with Steve Ford.

th

Correspondence with Trevor Horman.

tims/wms

Information extracted from Australian Nationals Computerised Traffic Information Management System (TIMS) The records that have been extracted from TIMS, and the Computerised Wagon Monitoring System (WMS), are not always very accurate. Frequently significant alterations did not make it into the system. An example is the upgrade of "Ghan" cars. These cars only show the date of the work order for modifications being issued in 1988 with very little information about when the actual work took place. For some cars this was not until 18 months later. Port Augusta still maintained paper based manual rollingstock record cards of changes long after they supposedly moved over to "TIMS", so generally "TIMS" shows the date the work was approved/proposed rather than when it was actually carried out.

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