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V&SAR Joint Stock Wooden Sleeping Car

Wolseley -- Finniss

19.4.1986 Finniss Dry Creek

Interior of Joint Stock Sleeping car, circa 1917.

V&SAR Joint stock wooden sleeping car Finniss was built at the Victorian Railways Newport Workshops for use on "The Overland". It was originally called Wolseley, but its name was changed to Finniss in 1910.

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

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17.10.1907	Entered service named Wolseley.
30.9.1910	Name changed to Finniss.
6.1923	Electric lighting fitted.
6.1936	Automatic couplers fitted.
4.1950	Victorian Railways equity brought by the South Australian Railways.
1953	Exterior rebuilt for use on the night train to Mount Gambier.
8.1976	Withdrawn from service after the fire in "Angas".
Sept-Oct 1978	Written off.
-	Purchased by Australian Railway Historical Society (SA Div) for $2000.

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