Inspection Cars Alberga and Coonatto

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Class  
Vehicle type Bogie officers' inspection car
First introduced 1972
To Port Lincoln 1972
Ex Port Lincoln 1997
Load capacity  
Number on Eyre Peninsula 2
Vehicle names Alberga and Coonatto

Built 1915 as sleeping cars, used on 'Broken Hill Express'. Converted to Officers’ inspection cars and transferred to Port Lincoln 1972. To Pichi Richi 1997.

'Coonatto' and 'Alberga' are at Port Lincoln, ready for the running of an AN Board inspection train in June 1990. Photo: Nic Doncaster