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Col André Kritzinger's Collection
 
4/25/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: South African Railways
Type: Baggage Car
AAR Class: PB: A car constructed for passenger train service and equipped to handle baggage, express, mail, merchandise or similar products.
AAR Type: M510
Detail Info:   Misc Cars
SAS Class:   K-52
User Notes:   Blue Train

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SAR Blue Train Baggage Van, Side A
Title:  SAR Blue Train Baggage Van, Side A
Description:  On Set 751, the baggage van usually runs first in the string of carriages that make up the Blue Train when the conference carriage is attached and brings up the rear. The interior layout is, from the left, a baggage room, the conductor's cabin with periscopes and exit doors on both sides, and a baggage room with a toilet on the A side. In the 2017 Set 751 it was no. 1 in the train.
SAR Type K-52. Number range 21001 to 21040. Fitted with Rockwell bogies. Built in 1970. Length over headstocks 65' 5 3/16". Height 12' 11 3/16". Width 9' 4".
Photo Date:  7/4/2017  Upload Date: 7/16/2017 10:48:26 AM
Location:  Bellville, Cape Town, WC, ZA
Author:  Col André Kritzinger
Categories:  Passenger
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