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Coffin Cars
These cars made up the club's passenger fleet during the early years, several having been converted from sideless original carriages from C.P.R. with wooden sides ans cushion seats. Referred to as our "coffin" cars, most were withdrawn as newer carriages were introduced. Four remain useable painted in a green with a yellow strip. Three have had their sides removed and fitted with rackes to form part of our signal train their future in this function are numbered.
TYPE Wooden bodied passenger car, 4 wheel bogies
LENGTH 2.44m ( 8' ) / 3.05m ( 10' ) WIDTH 51cm ( 1' 8")
HEIGHT 38cm ( 1' 3") WEIGHT 102 kg ( 2 cwt )
BUILDER DVR Members OWNER DVR
INTRODUCED 1963 / 1970 ROAD NUMBER 1-8, 9-12
Number of carriages 12 STATUS Four 1970 era examples remain useable.
Some bogies off condemmed coffin cars can still be found on our signal train.