| Title: |
SAR Sheathed Dining Car (Type 1, Side B) |
| Description: |
This dining car has a sheathed wooden body with a tapered roof peak at one end and seventeen standard size windows. Dining cars run permanently coupled to kitchen cars with their squared roof peak ends coupled together, and are always positioned in the middle of the train. This one is an ex SAR wagon that was restored by Rovos Rail, a private luxury passenger train operator with its headquarters at Capital Park in Pretoria. The interior layout was, from the right, an ice box in the corner on the A side, a bar with a passage around it on the B side, and the dining room.SAR Type A-22, Built 1924, Length over headstocks 60' 3", Height 12' 5 7/16", Width 8' 9", To seat 44. |
| Photo Date: |
6/22/2005 Upload Date: 1/20/2007 5:16:56 PM |
| Location: |
Capital Park, Pretoria, GP, Pr |
| Author: |
Col Andre Kritzinger |
| Categories: |
Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
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