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AA 1233
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Carriage History:
Built at the Petone Workshops, Wellington as a two compartment first class 'Main Trunk' carriage seating 30 passengers, with a central lavatory. It weighed in at 20ton 4cwt.
As built AA 1233 was allocated to Wellington, and in May 1935 was transferred to Auckland.
In March 1942 was altered to a Otahuhu workshops, Auckland to a second class suburban carriage with the fitting of scarrett 'flip over' seats. Seating was available for 51 passengers.
During 1975 AA 1233 was withdrawn from service and was offered to the RES in October 1976.
Preservation:
In October 1976 AA 1233 was offered to the Railway Enthusiast Society. It has been fully refurbished to
mainline standards to allow it to travel on the KiwiRail network.
All carriages in the RES fleet are in Ways and Works yellow with brown trim.
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