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SAR Dining Car (Series 2, Side B) |
| Description: |
This dining car, the OLIFANTS, is painted in the BJ's livery. BJ's is a restaurant group that, at the time, was contracted by Spoornet to do the catering on the Shosholoza Meyl's long distance routes. Dining cars run permanently coupled to kitchen cars and are always positioned in the middle of the train. The interior layout is, from the right, cupboards on both sides of the centre aisle, the dining room, and a bar with a passage around it on the B side.SAR Type A-1, Number range 401 to 419 (odd numbers only), Built 1968, Length over headstocks 47' 6" (19.952m), Height 13' 0" (3.937m), Width 9' 4" (2.845m), To seat 38. |
| Photo Date: |
3/26/2007 Upload Date: 4/13/2007 5:49:19 PM |
| Location: |
Esplanade, Cape Town, WC, ZA |
| Author: |
Col Andre Kritzinger |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Passenger |
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| Title: |
Dining car no. 411 |
| Description: |
In SAR days, no. 411 was named the "OLIFANTS", after the river. |
| Photo Date: |
10/8/2015 Upload Date: 10/16/2015 8:20:39 AM |
| Location: |
Modderrivier, NC, ZA |
| Author: |
Col André Kritzinger |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Wreck |
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