paired seating (window & aisle), additional seating offered during peak times
Catering facilities
onboard buffet service
Entertainment facilities
piped music
Baggage facilities
baggage facilities on train & at stations
Other facilities
intrastate mail service (until 1976)
Parcels service (until 1977)
Technical
Track gauge
3’6” (1067mm)
Operating speed
variable. Maximum track speed was 45mph/70kmh.
Track owner(s)
Tasmanian Government Railways (until July 1975), Australian National Railways Commission (from July 1975)
Timetable number(s)
40 (Hobart-Western Jnc);
223 (Western Jnc-Wynyard);
226 (Wynyard-Western Jnc);
67 (Western Jnc-Hobart)
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The service has the distinction of being the last regularly scheduled passenger train in Tasmania.[1]
^ Stokes, H.J.W. (1978) The Rise and Fall of the Tasman Limited, ARHS Bulletin, vol XXIX, number 493 November 1978, pp.237 - 244.
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