Talk:Victorian Railways E type carriage

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It is often claimed that the E type carriages were derived from a CPR design, but I have never seen any evidence to that effect. The design is evidence of a continuing evolution in the Victorian Railways design office, starting with the "Pioneer" carriages of 1893 (which had side corridors and rode on six wheel bogies) and the big Mann sleeping cars Perseverance and Enterprise, introduced at the same time, and which were local developments of the magnificent Mann Boudoir cars imported for the Adelaide Express in 1886 (4) and 1889 (2). From there, the "V" stock was designed and introduced on the Sydney Express in 1899 (I think), and these cars included vestibule connections for the first time. 23 and 32 AV had sumptuous lounge compartments. Clerestory roofs were first introduced on the VR in the American saloons of 1874, and were nothing new. The "E" cars therefore combined design features which had all been locally tested. Tait was not an engineer, but clearly a good operator, much as was W.A.Webb (Commissioner of the SAR from 1922). We should be wary about crediting him with thse designs. He had a competent staff, and encouraged them to think big, and they did.Mav62 (talk) 13:32, 11 July 2008 (UTC)mav62
 * The source material (Robert Lee) couldn't be more emphatic: "Tait introduced a design based on Canadian coaches". So I guess if this point is contentious, what is needed is to find alternative and equally reliable source material that states otherwise. Note that the key CPR influence related to the use of end doors rather than externally opening compartment doors, which in turn enabled a wide carriage body, and the curve-ended clerestory roof (we should make this clarification in the article). Lee also notes that interior design was not at all Canadian due to the continued use of English-style compartments rather than an open saloon design.
 * I would disagree with the assertion that Tait did not have significant influence at a design level. He is credited by a number of reliable sources (including ARHS publications) with the introduction of the full-width Canadian cab design to the Dd class locomotive. So with this in mind, while I agree that the E class cars were an evolution in many ways of existing VR practice, I think it's not an unreasonable argument that Tait was personally responsible for bringing a Canadian influence to their design. - Zzrbiker (talk) 13:57, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Fire codes in Australia?
I could hardly believe that they used wooden cars for passenger service in 1990s. How did Australians bypass the fire safety concerns? NVO (talk) 06:43, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Largely Grandfather Clause. Anothersignalman (talk) 03:37, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

BG cars
I've added a section to better give the history of Taggerty, Kiewa, Moyne, 1BG and 2BG. Any comments? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anothersignalman (talk • contribs) 19:06, 7 September 2016 (UTC)