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After the demise of sleeper trains in the early 1990s, many of the carriages passed to the Australian Railway Historical Society, Canberra Railway Museum and New South Wales Rail Transport Museum (now the NSW Rail Museum) who have maintained them in operational condition. [10] [11] The latter often operates them on tours under the Southern ...
In Melbourne, the train was turned using a balloon loop. After a year in service, the train was credited with having increased patronage to 209,000 passengers, an increase of 28,000 or 15% over the number carried by the Sydney Limited in its last year of operation. [16] By 22 November 1939 annual patronage had increased again to 222,371. [17]
The Sydney–Melbourne Express was an overnight intercapital passenger train service that operated between Australia's largest two cities, Sydney and Melbourne, between August 1986 and November 1993. Operated jointly by State Rail Authority and V/Line the name depended on the direction of travel, with the train nicknamed the 'Sex' or 'Mex'. [1] [2]
The New South Wales stainless steel carriage stock was a type of passenger carriage operated by the New South Wales Government Railways from 1961 until 1993.. These carriages were mainly used on interstate trains such as the Southern Aurora, which ran between Sydney and Melbourne, its slower counterpart the Spirit of Progress and the Brisbane Limited.
A Sydney Trains B set departing Flemington station. Sydney Trains is the state government operator of the Sydney suburban railway network, which is part of the Transport for NSW network. Metro Trains Sydney, a private entity whose majority owner is MTR Corporation, operates the Sydney Metro rapid transit line on behalf of Transport for NSW.
The train made use of the E-type sleeping cars for students and teachers, because they were increasingly being displaced by newer steel cars. The remaining five Joint Stock sleepers, Acheron, Coliban, Inman, Pekina, and Loddon (ex Melbourne) became part of the Victorian Railways fleet on 27 June 1969. [20]
It’s also hard to make night trains profitable, considering that a day-running train car has about 70 seats, compared to the 20 to 40 berths on an average night train. And there is the issue of ...
Night trains of Australia - current and discontinued Pages in category "Night trains of Australia" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total.