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feet over panels, and 9 feet 44 inches wide over panels. 
They have been all built in the railway workshops at 
Hveleigh. In addition tothe corridor cars, there have also 
been built in the railway shops a number of sleeping cars. 
Long cars, for first-class passengers, and carried on six- 
wheeled bogies, have been built on both the “Pullman ”’ 
and ‘“‘Mann”’ systems for Inter-State trains. Shorter 
sleeping cars of the “Pullman” type, arranged in every 
respect like the longer “‘Pullman”’ vehicles but carried on 
four-wheeled bogies, have been built for the shorter distance ~ 
first-class passengers. The ‘‘ Pullman’’ vehicles are 
arranged with end platforms and doors which communicate 
by a central passage, with upper and lower berths on each 
side of the car arranged longitudinally in the usual way. 
The cars on the ‘‘Mann’”’ system have similar end platforms 
and doors, but communicate by aside corridor with separate 
compartments or cabins fitted with upper and lower berths 
arranged transversely. The long vehicles of all kinds, both 
sleeper and non-sleeper, used for Inter-State traffic, are 
fitted with vestibule end passages which permit through 
communication from end to end of the train. Brake and 
parcel vans, post-office vans and mail baggage vans to 
match the above mentioned vehicles have also been con- 
structed to run with each train. 
In regard to the merchandise stock a number of refriger- 
ator cars have been constructed for the conveyance of dead 
meat and other perishable products from the interior to 
the seaboard. The old style of goods wagon with small 
carrying capacity has been largely replaced by vehicles 
with composite or steel frames, having a carrying capacity 
of 10 and 15 tons; while a large number of 15-ton wagons, 
constructed entirely of pressed steel have lately been added 
to the stock. 
In order to cope with the increasing amount of work, it 
was found necessary in 1899, to put up new erecting shops 
