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Gold Coast Motorail

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Gold Coast Motorail
Gold Coast Motorail at Sydney Central
Overview
Service typePassenger train
StatusCeased
First service3 March 1973
Last service11 February 1990
SuccessorUnnamed XPT service
Former operator(s)State Rail Authority
Route
TerminiSydney Central
Murwillumbah
Distance travelled934 kilometres
Service frequencynightly in each direction
Train number(s)NL3/NL4
Line(s) usedNorth Coast
Technical
Rolling stockHUB
RUB
stainless steel sleepers

The Gold Coast Motorail was an Australian passenger train operated by the Public Transport Commission from March 1973 until February 1990.[1]

It operated from Sydney via the North Coast line to Murwillumbah. It departed Central railway station in Sydney. It was formed of air-conditioned HUB/RUB sitting carriages along with stainless steel sleepers as well as having a motorail facility.[2] Its headcode was NL3/NL4.

In May 1987, it was renamed the Pacific Coast Motorail.[3] In February 1990 it was replaced by an unnamed XPT service.[4]

References

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  1. ^ "20 Years Ago" Railway Digest March 1993 page 114
  2. ^ "Motorail nears the end of the road" Railway Digest March 1990 page 89
  3. ^ "The Thirty-First of May" Railway Digest July 1987 page 210
  4. ^ "The New Timetable" Railway Digest March 1990 page 94