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Owner: South African Railways
Type: Baggage Car
AAR Class: PB: A car constructed for passenger train service and equipped to handle baggage, express, mail, merchandise or similar products.
AAR Type: M510
Detail Info:   Misc Cars
SAS Class:   K-51
User Notes:   Baggage-Van Combine

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SAR Baggage-Van (Series 1, Side B)
Title:  SAR Baggage-Van (Series 1, Side B)
Description:  This combination conductor's van/baggage car is an ex SAR wagon that was restored by Rovos Rail, a private luxury passenger train operator with its headquarters at Capital Park in Pretoria. The interior layout is, from the left, a baggage room with two dog boxes on the B side, the conductor's cabin with exit doors on both sides, and a baggage room with a toilet on the B side and two dog boxes on the A side.

SAR Type K-51, Number range 3931 to 4000 (this one's number faals outside that range), imported in 1961, Length over headstocks 65' 5 3/16", Height 12' 11 3/16", Width 9' 4".
Photo Date:  5/10/2006  Upload Date: 1/24/2007 4:53:30 PM
Location:  Capital Park, Pretoria, GP, Pr
Author:  Col Andre Kritzinger
Categories:  Passenger
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