Hoping that Yahoo works this time . . .

Just thought I'd put-in another two-cents worth, before someone accuses me
of carrying-on like a two-bob watch . . .

There were three locations on the Victorian Railways that employed
traversers to allow a steam loco to 'escape' from its train at a terminal;
St. Kilda was one, and Princes Bridge was another (cannot remember the
third).

When the Tait cars were built, those destined to be Motors were built with
the roof-well for a pantograph, the other Tait carriages with a cupola but
no roof-well were intended to be Driving trailers or 'Ringer' Trailers (all
but two of which were later converted to D cars). Sorry if previous posts
were misleading.
Mixed consists of Tait and Swing-Door stock, while not "common", was not
unusual - being part of electric operations from the early 1920s judging by
photographic evidence. When the Tait G cars were introduced from 1923 to
lengthen the standard 6-car trains to 7 cars, this included the Dogbox sets
as well.

The last 7-car Swing-Door train ran on the Clifton Hill group of lines in
February 1973; the smaller sets lasted at Altona until October the same
year, with the final few surviving barely two months more on the St. Kilda
and Port Melbourne lines.
Surprisingly, the Taits were all withdrawn a short 11 years after that -
including the ones that were built as late as the 1950s; All of the Harris
(Blue) EMUs disappeared by 1988, even those built in the 1970s, although in
this case many were 'recycled' (re-purposed in modern PC 'speak').

BTW, some great photos from Bob Wilson - have attached one, with a little
bit of colour restoration.

Dean.

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