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V&SAR Joint Stock Wooden Sleeping Car

Ballarat -- Glenelg

Interior of Joint Stock Sleeping car, circa 1917.

Interior of Joint Stock Sleeping car smoking saloon, circa 1917.

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

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

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17.10.1907	Entered service named Ballarat.
30.9.1910	Renamed Glenelg.
3.1924	Electric light fitted.
6.1936	Automatic couplers fitted.
8.1967	Withdrawn from service. Last run on the "Train of Knowledge" tour August 1967.
16.10.1967	Condemned.

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