In the 60's, there were 3 iconic trains leaving Melbourne each evening (The Southern Aurora, The Spirit Of Progress & The Overland) between 6:00 and 9:30. Up till 1966, all the pubs in Melbourne closed at 6:00pm (hence the infamous Six O'clock Swill) & us thirsty University students discovered that a legal place to drink after 6:00 was the Bar Car on each of these trains. So, some evenings, you'd see a group of students boarding the Aurora (no tickets required, having a few beers, then moving to the Spirit when the Aurora was about to depart, and finally ending up in the Overland.
Ah, the lengths we would go to to get a drink in those days.
But all three were lovely trains.....
Dave