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V&SAR Joint Stock Wooden Sleeping Car

9.4.1986,Angas car burnt end Dry Creek 7.10.1996,Wallaroo - Angas sleeping car

Angas

V&SAR Joint stock wooden sleeping car Angas was built at the Victorian Railways Newport Workshops (by contractors Scott and party) for use on The Overland.

See also V&SAR sleeping cars: Acheron, Baderloo, Barwon, Coliban, Dargo, Finniss, Glenelg, Inman, Loddon, Onkaparinga, Pekina, Tambo, Torrens.

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25.9.1923Entered service.
6.1936Automatic couplers fitted.
4.1950Victorian Railways equity brought by South Australian Railways.
1953Exterior rebuild for use on the night train to Mount Gambier.
8.1976Burnt while in service on the night train to Mount Gambier. Not used in service after this date.
9.9.1977Officially withdrawn from service and condemned.
-Purchased by Australian Railway Historical Society (SA Div) for $700.
3.1995Australian Railway Historical Society approved disposal of carriage to "Kadina to Wallaroo Tourist Railway".
19.11.1995Transferred from Dry Creek to Kadina.
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