The New Deal for Country Passengers was a rail timetable that significantly restructured regional passenger railway services in Victoria, Australia. It was introduced on 4 October 1981 and resulted in
V/Line ticket for the Ararat railway line in 1986
N class locomotive with H type carriages, wearing the 1980s V/Line livery
VicRail N type carriage
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The N type carriages are an intercity passenger carriage used on the railways of Victoria, Australia. They were introduced between 1981 and 1984 as part of the 'New Deal' reforms of country passenger
New Deal for Country Passengers
…1930s-late 1950s S and Z type carriages Extending the 30/36-car order to 54, later 57 air conditioned steel bodied passenger cars, formed into 18/19 3-car N sets Elimination of older non-airconditioned wooden bodied carriage stock (including the E and W type carriages…
Economy-class carriage at Southern Cross station, 2016
First-class carriage interior, 2023
BN 19 at the Seymour Railway Heritage Centre, stripped of its PTV livery, 2023
Interior of an unrefurbished economy-class carriage, 2008