Coaching Stock of the NSW Railways: Volume #02 (ASCR-C2)
Product No.: ASCR-C2
Title: Coaching Stock of the NSW Railways: Volume #02
Author(s): Cooke, David; Estell, Don; Seckold, Keith & Beckhaus, John
Illustrator(s): Toohey, Dennis
Publisher: Eveleigh Press
ISBN: 1876568003
Condition: New
Binding: Hard Cover
Dust Jacket: Yes
Edition: Reprint
Publication Year: 2015
Features: 260 Pages with Black/White Photos.
The title covers, in detail, the design, construction and operation of carriage stock on the railways of NSW. The groups covered in Volume 2 include : American sleeping and suburban cars - clerestory, Mansard, low and high elliptical and BOB sets. Other Truss-sided cars - AB41 dining car, Davis sleepers, branchline cars, Mann sleepers, Governor-General's car and Pullman cars. Steel country cars - S and N non air-conditioned cars, H and S air-conditioned cars, stainless steel Brisbane Express, Southern Aurora, Gold Coast Motorail and proposed cars.
Miscellaneous cars - Commissioner's Car No.9, ex-Budd & Tulloch railcars, loco hauled double deck stainless steel electric cars, small bogie brake vans, power vans, goods brake vans, education vans, exhibition/mobile showroom vans, motor car carriers and Motorail wagons. Indian Pacific cars. Carriage miscellanea - special trains, rolling stock builders, lettering, ventilation and heating, lighting, brakes, bogies, colour schemes, car sets, coding systems and numbering.
Appendices : Victorian Railways standard gauge cars, East Greta Coal Mining Co/South Maitland Railways, roofs and lighting. Coverage is extensive; there is comprehensive tabular information on construction, conversion and condemnation dates for each individual car. Illustrations include photographs of every available type and drawings. This work has been over a decade in the making, and includes the latest research from original sources. It is the definitive work on the NSW passenger carriage, and is unlikely to be reprinted. This is a once-only chance to get the most complete work on NSW carriages ever offered..