Re: "Express" Cars -- British / Australian usage?

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From: Kevin S.
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 02:52

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> Compartments gave more privacy and were probably easier to (steam) heat
> in the days before air-conditioning. Saloon carriages are much more
> spacious but give no protection from drunks wandering up and down the
> aisles at 2.00am ...

And just what protection was there in dog-boxes from drunks landing in your
compartment at 2:00am?? I know which I'd prefer.



I've often thought that the ideal arrangement was
> compartment stock with side corridors and of course lavatories, and of
> course, heating. I last rode in a side-corridor carriage between Sydney
> and Canberra in midwinter some thirty years ago and if I'd been a brass
> monkey ...
>
> Andrew Clarke
> Canberra
>

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