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V&SAR Joint Stock Wooden Sleeping Car

Tambo

21.10.2000 Tambo Ballarat East Workshops

V&SAR Joint stock wooden sleeping car Tambo was built at the Victorian Railways Newport Workshops for use on The Overland.

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

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27.10.1919	Entered service.
6.1936	Automatic couplers fitted.
-	Victorian Railways equity brought by South Australian Railways.
-	Allocated to the night train to Mount Gambier service.
16.10.1974	Condemned.
-	Sold.
-	Donated to Australian Railways Historical Society (SA Div).
1993	Australian Railways Historical Society approved disposal of carriage. Sold to West Coast Rail.
23.11.1995	Transported from Dry Creek to Ballarat.
3.2004	Offered for Sale by Tender along with a large number of vehicles owned by West Coast Railway.
5.2004	Move to Maldon. Owned by private individual who intends to restore the car, which an end platform.
6.2005	Returned to service on "Castlemain to Maldon railway". Fully restored with end deck.

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