Re: Mixed Trains (was: "Express" Cars -- British / Australian usage?)

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From: John F Kappler
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 06:13

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On 15 Sep 2005 23:38:40 -0700, "Andrew Clarke"
<ajc@cts.canberra.edu.au> wrote:

>jeffreybounds@hotmail.com wrote:
>
>>   Les,you are correct.I only used this train,as it saved me a hotel
>> bill.I was on a N.S.W.all lines ticket.
>>   Until 1964,the mixed train ran to Junee,arriving at 1700hrs.Prior to
>> 1955,the train ran to Albury,arriving at 0100hrs the next day.
>>   By the 1960s the train was hauled by a C38 4-6-2.
>>   Jeff
>
>IIRC the last mixed train in NSW ran in 1982, by which time I suspect
>most of them ran with an empty passenger carriage. Closely related were
>the "goods trains with passenger accommodation" i.e. the brake van had
>a couple of passenger compartments.
>
>Anyone know when and where the last "mixed" ran in the UK? Presumably
>it was on one of the light lines, like The Mound-Dornoch?
>
>Andrew Clarke
>Canberra
>
I'm sure I remember the early morning Barnstaple - Exeter in a mixed
configuration in the mid-1970s.

JohnK

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