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V&SAR Joint Stock Wooden Sleeping Car

9.4.1986,Angas car burnt end Dry Creek

7.10.1996,Wallaroo - Angas sleeping car

Angas

V&SAR Joint stock wooden sleeping car Angas was built at the Victorian Railways Newport Workshops (by contractors Scott and party) for use on The Overland.

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

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25.9.1923	Entered service.
6.1936	Automatic couplers fitted.
4.1950	Victorian Railways equity brought by South Australian Railways.
1953	Exterior rebuild for use on the night train to Mount Gambier.
8.1976	Burnt while in service on the night train to Mount Gambier. Not used in service after this date.
9.9.1977	Officially withdrawn from service and condemned.
-	Purchased by Australian Railway Historical Society (SA Div) for $700.
3.1995	Australian Railway Historical Society approved disposal of carriage to "Kadina to Wallaroo Tourist Railway".
19.11.1995	Transferred from Dry Creek to Kadina.

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