"Pekina" - Sleeping Car No. 9 - V&SAR Joint Stock Wooden Sleeping Car

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V&SAR Joint Stock Wooden Sleeping Car

12.6.1986 Pekina car Spencer street station

Pekina -- Sleeping Car 9

V&SAR Joint stock wooden sleeping car Pekina 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, Tambo, Torrens.

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2.9.1919	Entered service.
6.1936	Auto couplers fitted.
27.6.1969	South Australian Railway equity brought by Victorian Railways.
15.9.1969	Altered to "Sleeping car No. 9".
6.1986	Being used on the "Train of Knowledge". Fitted with 4 wheel roller bearing bogies.
1990	Withdrawn and allocated to AREA.
1997-98	Allocated to Syemour Rail Heritage Centre.
2017	Reallocated to "The Overland Museum".
17.6.2017	Moved from "Seymour to Newport".
6.12.2016	Moved to "Overland Museum" Kaniva by road.

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