Pullman Carriage

Thank you for doing such a great job, the signage has been much admired and certainly sets the car off beautifully. 

I'd like to express our appreciation for the great service from you and the team at Graphic Effects.  To start off with a fuzzy b&w photocopy and produce signs that we know are accurate reproductions are a credit to you all.  Also I appreciate your no fuss can do approach to the installation at Newport.

A bit of background to the project.  We are restoring a 1928 Pullman carriage from the USA for use on the Victorian Goldfields Railway running between Castlemaine and Maldon in central Victoria. Named Macedon it is one of only 2 of these carriages to be exported from North America.

It is an historic carriage being the prototype of all steel construction of passenger carriages in Australia. At that time the bodies were of all timber construction.   It was originally bought by the Victorian Railways in 1928 to run on The Overland between Melbourne and Adelaide.  The restoration is being carried out at the old Newport Railway workshops at Newport and when completed early next year it will be transferred to Castlemaine.  It will be in regular use on the first class services on the tourist railway.

The interior is  totally refurbished in an art deco style and is designed to be redolent of the club cars of the 1930's at the height of the golden age of railways.

Again thankyou

Andrew Reynolds

Pullman Operations.