BS
air conditioned, economy class, steel sitting cars
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BS 8 at Nth Melbourne workshops Aug. 1984
Photo courtesy Rob O'Regan |
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These were the 2nd class sitting cars for the original Spirit of Progress. Further building after the SOP started running saw the class grow to 14. In 1962 8 BS's were transferred to Standard Gauge for the start of the SG Spirit Of Progress. The rest of the class remained on Broad Gauge providing economy class air conditioned service on longer distance trains.
Over the years several BS's were converted to mini buffet cars. In 1966 BS's 2 & 3 were converted to MBS's 1 & 2 respectively. In 1977 BS 1 became MRS 2 and BS 4 became MRS1. *BS numbers increased after 1983, concurrant with the introduction of the N cars, most remaining AS cars were recoded to BS. |
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BS 7 at Spencer St late 1970's
Photo courtesy Geoff Winkler
BS 2, photo date: Jan. 1983
Photo courtesy Rob O'Regan
BS 3, photo date: Jan. 1983
Photo courtesy Rob O'Regan
BELOW: BS 7 in the first V/Line scheme at Spencer St. 1983
BS 7, photo date: Aug. 1985
Photo courtesy Rob O'Regan
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BS 15 at Spencer St 1979
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AS to BS recodes
The arrival of the N cars saw most of the remaining AS's recoded to BS.
ABOVE: BS 204 was recoded from AS 4 in Nov 1983. photo date: Nov 1983
BELOW: BS 209 was recoded from AS 1, photo date Aug 1985
Both photos courtesy Rob O'Regan
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