NSWR stands for New South Wales Railways and those brass luggage racks were fitted in every compartment (and over every set of seats in open carriages) of just about every passenger carriage used outside of the metropolitan area in the days before airconditioned coaches became the norm.

From memory there were two types … a relatively short one used in open carriages and a longer one used in carriages that were divided into compartments. It wasn’t uncommon for people – usually men – to actually sleep in those longer racks if they were on one of the overnight mail trains.

They never looked all that comfortable to me so I never tried it.

Stuart