NSWR  Vestibuled End Platform Cars

In the late 1920s two five car sets of end platform carriages were fitted with enclosed platforms and vestibuled gangways. Set 75, a Low elliptical roofed set and Set 76, a High elliptical roofed set were chosen to form a new express service to Mount Victoria. Commencing the Caves Express service in 1929, Set 75 was originally finished in blue and russet paintwork.

However, by 1932 the russet window portion had been repainted into Deep Cream. Whilst Set 75 was superceded by a newer carriage type in 1933, it retained the blue and cream exterior paintwork until around 1939. A sixth independent car, FA 1423 was also painted into the Caves Express colours however by 1939 it was repainted and returned to Set 56.

After Set 75 was displaced from the Mt Victoria service it was used on the evening Lithgow service until the early 1940s. Later it received the standard post- war Red and Russet paint scheme.

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