VR-SAR Overland RoomTantini

VR-SAR Overland RoomTantini

The Overland - Melbourne to Adelaide

For over a hundred years the Overland over-nightly pounded the arduous miles between Adelaide and Melbourne in both directions. Originally known as the 'Intercolonial
Express' the service commenced on January 19, 1887.

The Railway was Australia's first intercaptial connection without a break of Gauge, and the passenger service was operated using rolling stock jointly owned by South Australia and Victoria.

During 1936 the train was named 'the Overland' during a facelift. The first diesel powered Overland pulled out of Adelaide Station on November 19 1951.

Air conditioned steel cars were built between 1949 and 1972 at the S.A.R Islington Workshops replacing wooden bodied cars in service on the train. Carriages built prior to 1970 were fitted with axle driven generators and converted to head end power in 1970.

Overland Sleeper

Company: Victorian & South Australian Railways

Capacity: 20

Weight: 47.8t

Year: 1949-1972

Names...

Roomettes

Allambi - quiet pace
Chalaki - evening
Juki - Southern cross
Mururi - to sleep
Nankuri - good
Purpawi - calm
Tantini - sleeping
Tarkinji - sunrise

Twinnettes

Tawarri - evening breeze
Weroni - quiet
Yankai - walkabout
Yanni - journey
Dorai - to sleep
Kuldalai - a dream man who came out of the Southern Cross
Malkari - moon
Mokai - to rest
Nomuldi - gently
Paiti - twilight

VR-SAR Overland RoomTantini
• config.txt 17.77KB
overland_sleeper_art
overland_sleeper_art_512.texture.txt 97 bytes
overland_sleeper_art_512.tga 1.00MB
overland_sleeper_art_icon.texture.txt 99 bytes
overland_sleeper_art_icon.tga 32.53KB
overland_sleeper_body
cupla.texture.txt 28 bytes
cupla.tga 768.04KB
overland_roomette copy.texture.txt 45 bytes
overland_roomette copy.tga 6.00MB
overland_sleeper_body.im 98.41KB
overland_sleeper_shadow
black.texture.txt 28 bytes
black.tga 812 bytes
overland_sleeper_shadow.im 8.02KB