NOA Hospital car

NOA 43 to NOA 49

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"NC" class cattle vans converted to Hospital cars during WWII for North Australia Railway.

The hospital train ran twice a week and consisted of cattle trucks painted white, with large red crosses on the sides. Internally they were lined with hardboard painted blue and carried two rows of bunks on each side, fitted with a mattress and pillow, toilet, and cupboards for medical supplies. They also featured electric light, but no windows. End doors allowed the medical staff to move from one van to the next. NOA 43 was fitted out as a kitchen with a kerosene operated refrigerator, a kerosene stove on which patients meals were prepared and built in tanks for drinking water.

The train could carry 48 bed patients, or up to 70 bed and walking patients. It generally left the base hospital in the early evening and arrived at the convalescent hospital the next day.

NOA 43

"NC" class cattle van converted to Hospital Kitchen car during WWII.

NOA 44

"NC" class cattle van converted to Hospital car during WWII.

NOA 45

"NC" class cattle van converted to Hospital car during WWII.

NOA 46

"NC" class cattle van converted to Hospital car during WWII.

NOA 47

"NC" class cattle van converted to Hospital car during WWII.

NOA 48

"NC" class cattle van converted to Hospital car during WWII.

NOA 49

"NC" class cattle van converted to Hospital car during WWII.