Carriage Information Comrails Logo  Commissioner Webb's Pullman
Carriages  Three carriages were puchased from the "Pullman Car &
Manufacturing Company" of America in 1927. They consisted of one
dining car and two sleeping cars with each vehicle costing
£19,378. The Sleeping cars were Lot 6111 Plan 7143, 10
compartments, (being in the 71xx series of floor plans means
that the cars were never to be operated by Pullman). Pullman had
not built 10 compartment sleeping cars since 1914, so this was
an unusual order. The structure and layout and fittings were the
latest. The Dining cars were Lot 6112 Plan 7144.[ah]  As they
were constructed from steel, and featured concrete floors for
stability, they weighed 76.7 tonnes and ran on 6 wheel bogies.
The dining car was given the name "Adelaide" and only ran on the
South Australian Railways section of The Overland.  The sleeping
cars were called "Macedon" and Mount Lofty and ran the full The
Overland service between Adelaide and Melbourne.  Adelaide
Macedon Mount Lofty