• This page outlines the history and evolution of Victorian Railways (Australia) bogie passenger carriages, constructed with steel underframes and timber...
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    type carriages were wooden express passenger carriage used on the railways of Victoria, Australia. Originally introduced by Victorian Railways Chairman...
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    "Victorian Railways—Loco hauled Passenger Carriages". Peter J. Vincent's Website. Retrieved 8 February 2008. Norm Bray; Peter J. Vincent (2006). Bogie...
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  • The Victorian Railways (VR) of Australia and successors have utilised a number of different types of railway carriages and wagons for the supply of head...
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  • catalogue of sleeping carriages used by the Victorian Railways and successors. In 1886, delivery was taken of four sleeping carriages built by the Mann Boudoir...
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    The first passenger cars built specifically for The Overland train service operated by the Victorian and South Australian Railways (V & SAR) were introduced...
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    Clyde Engineering, Granville for the Victorian Railways in 1952–1953. Ordered and operated by the Victorian Railways, they initiated the dieselisation of...
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    The PL type carriages were a series of 141 wooden passenger carriages used on the railways of Victoria, Australia. They consisted of the first class APL...
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    introduced in 1935, when one of the E type carriages was fitted. All steel carriages came to the Victorian Railways in 1927, with the construction of the "Avoca"...
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    The W type carriages were wooden passenger carriages used on the railways of Victoria, Australia. There were two variants, short- and long-body vehicles...
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    in Brisbane. In the 1950s, the company used two Victorian Railways wooden bogie passenger carriages as accommodation in the 1950s. The circus staff complained...
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    The A class are a class of diesel locomotives rebuilt from Victorian Railways B class locomotives by Clyde Engineering, Rosewater in South Australia for...
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    carriages are a corridor-type passenger carriage used on the railways of Victoria, Australia. The first carriages were constructed by the Victorian Railways...
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    diesel locomotives built by Clyde Engineering, Granville for the Victorian Railways between 1957 and 1961. The S class was based on the Electro-Motive...
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  • As the Victorian Railways' fleet of Z vans began to age, the railways decided to invest in bogie designs for vans. Some van designs were included in a...
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    Travel class (redirect from Passenger class)
    provided wooden benches. While most passenger trains carried just one or two "first class" and "second class" carriages, every other carriage was "third...
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  • to the Ffestiniog Railway, where they were placed on two foot gauge bogies and used as the basis for some of the "Barn" carriages running on the FR....
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    Railways five former New Zealand Railways 47" 6' foot wooden-clad carriages. These cars are known as "Scarrett'" heritage carriages and were built between 1912...
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    Great Eastern Railway six-wheelers between 1926 and 1929 for the Aberdeen suburban services. By 1936 more up to date Gresley bogie carriages were used on...
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    including drivers and guards, Carriage & Waggon who preserve carriages, and Commercial which operates shops, events and the passenger side of operations. The...
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    diesel locomotives built by Clyde Engineering, Granville for the Victorian Railways between 1963 and 1968. In 1963, the first of 25 general purpose diesel-electric...
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    for V/Line between 1985 and 1987. By the start of the 1980s, Victorian Railways passenger numbers had fallen to around 3 million per year, due to ageing...
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    The Victorian Railways L class was a class of electric locomotives built by English Electric and operated by the Victorian Railways and later V/Line from...
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    Between 1936 and 1942, South Australian Railways built 36 steel carriages at its Islington Railway Workshops. All were painted cream and green being repainted...
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    Wooden Railways. London: Routledge Keegan Paul. Lewis, M. J. T., "Railways in the Greek and Roman world", in Guy, A. / Rees, J. (eds), Early Railways...
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    The H type carriages are a class of interurban passenger carriage operated by V/Line in Victoria, Australia. Fitted with high-density 2+3 seating, they...
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    40 years, and shortly before his death in 1889 he introduced a few bogie carriages for the main business trains. Stroudley was a pioneer of dynamo-driven...
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    of a four carriage set. Built in Broadmeadow, New South Wales, it was delivered by rail into Melbourne on 10 December 1991. After being bogie exchanged...
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    New South Wales XPT (category Railway locomotives introduced in 1981)
    passenger cars, built to a loading gauge bigger than that of railways in Britain, were based on a Budd design. Nonetheless, the passenger car bogies were...
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    BCP carriages 19–80 were constructed in 1915–1916. However, they did not have the standard carriage bogies, but were fitted with plate-framed bogies intended...
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