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V&SAR Joint Stock Wooden Sleeping Car

Adelaide -- Torrens

31.3.1986 Torrens car North Williamstown Museum

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

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

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

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17.10.1907	Entered service named Adelaide.
30.9.1910	Renamed Torrens.
6.1936	Automatic couplers fitted.
-	South Australian Railways equity brought by Victorian Railways.
9.1967	Last run on the "Train of Knowledge".
16.10.1967	Withdrawn and condemned.
-	Transferred to ARHS Museum North Williamstown, Victoria.

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