Steel V&SAR Joint Stock Carriages

Joint Stock Sleepers

Each sleeping compartment provides the sleeper with the following facilities, hot and cold running water, toilet, basin, shaving mirror, coat hanging space and night lights. The roomette cars each provide shower facilities at the end of the car. On the twinette cars, each room contains an upper and lower sleeping bunk. Private shower facilities are provide within each cabin.

The Four sleepers Allambi, Dorai, Tantini and Weroni were replaced in 1971 and the original cars sold to V.R. for use on the new "Vinelander" service from Melbourne to Mildura.

Two sleepers were renamed shortly after entering service. They were Malkari and Paiti, which originally had been named Tolkini and Tandeni.

The names of the roomette sleepers were:

Allambi	Chalaki	Juki	Mururi
Nankuri	Purpawi	Tantini	Tarkinji

The names of the twinette sleepers were:

Dorai	Kuldalai	Malkari	Mokai	Nomuldi
Paiti	Tawarri	Weroni	Yankai	Yanni

Codings

All cars were given coding by Australian National when they introduced a new computer system. These coding were:

JRA: 1 - Mururi, 2 - Chalaki, 3 - Nankuri, 4 - Purpawi, 5 - Juki, 6 - Tarkinji.

JRB: 1 - Allambi, 2 - Tantini.

JTA: 1 - Nomuldi, 2 - Mokai, 3 - Malkari, 4 - Paiti, 5 - Yanni, 6 - Kuldalai.

JTB: 1 - Tawarri, 2 - Yankai, 3 - Weroni, 4 - Dorai.

Meanings of Carriage Names

All the sleeping cars are named after local Aboriginal names associated with sleep and dreaming. Their meanings are

Allambi	quiet pace
Chalaki	evening
Dorai	to sleep
Juki	Southern cross
Kuldalai	a dream man who came out of the Southern Cross
Malkari	moon
Mokai	to rest
Mururi	to sleep
Nankuri	good
Nomuldi	gently
Paiti	twilight
Purpawi	calm
Tantini	sleeping
Tarkinji	sunrise
Tawarri	evening breeze
Weroni	quiet
Yankai	walkabout
Yanni	journey