Overview of Passenger Stock
The Greater Lithgovia Railway in its current incarnation under the guidance of Lord 574M commenced operations with resurrected Sputniks, former NSWGR B class suburban motors and trailers, and one even more ancient form of rolling stock. More recently, additional stock has been acquired for operation of the Phoenix Express.
Phoenix Express
This service is the Premiere Service of the Greater Lithgovia Railway. The following stock has been acquired, and altered to suit the Loading Gauge and operational requirements of the Greater Lithgovia Railway. Ipso facto, the main reservoir pipe is now a conduit for Lithgovia Bitter and delivers LB to all seating positions in the car.
The Phoneix Express was introduced with a simple Flame Car.
You may download the Flame Car from the Phoenix Express.
The Greater Lithgovia Railway then began to acquire and experiment with various types of rolling stock from overseas. Here is the first variation to the flame car was a BR Mark 1 Blood and Custard suitably repainted and decorated using a flame enameled backdrop to the window panelling.
You may download the Phoenix1 Car from the Phoenix Express.
EMU Stock - Evolution of Lettering
There were various incarnations of the Lithgovian Script upon the sides of the vee-hickles.
Operations commenced with a rather modest "Lithgovian Railway", viz:
This scriptum did evolve:
This evolved to:
The final version of this script was settled upon:
When B Sets were banned for being too wide to operate past Springwood or whatever, anciens suburban coaches were introduced:
Other Rolling Stock
Hospital Car
In the Kwest for the Helf of Lord Wurx, several new vee-hicles were provided. Here is the Hospital Car:
Ex Cathedra
Ex-cathedra is latin, from the seat. In normal usage, it refers to the Pope when he makes infallible statements, in accord with the doctrines of the Roman Church. In THIS case, it refers to the travelling ecclesiastical vee-hickle of Monsignor Oldfart, the Patriach of the Very Unorthodox Patriarchy of Lithgovia. His Vee-hikle is shown below:
This vee-hickle is emblazoned with the Phoenix, the symbol of the Evil Empire of Lithgovia. This vee-hickle may undergo yet further transformation.
This site last updated 21 November 2007
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