The Victorian Railways used a variety of former traffic wagons around depots and for specific construction, maintenance and similar tasks. Very few of...
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Wagons of Victoria. Brief History Books. ISBN 0-9775056-0-X. Mark Bau. "Four wheeled open wagons of the Victorian Railways". Notes from the Victorian...
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The Victorian Railways used a variety of flat wagons for the transport of a wide range of loads. Generally speaking, the bogie wagons were custom-built...
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The Victorian Railways used a variety of both 4-wheel and bogie open wagons for the transport of a wide range of loads. The first open wagons were 4-wheel...
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Rail transport in Victoria (redirect from Victorian rail network)
wheeled open wagons of the Victorian Railways". Notes from the Victorian Model Railway Society Prototype Modellers Meet 2007. "ARHS Railway Museum: Victoria...
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locomotive that ran on Victorian Railways from 1907 to 1963. A highly successful design entirely the work of Victorian Railways' own design office, its...
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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 Victorian Railways used a variety of boxcars or covered goods wagons for the transport of all manner of goods. This page covers the history and development...
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The Victorian Goldfields Railway is a 1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in) broad gauge tourist railway in Victoria, Australia. It operates along a formerly disused branch...
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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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Victorian Railways there were some wagons which stayed within workshop compounds, and so were never taken out onto the mainline. Usually these wagons...
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1962. Ballast wagons BR Dogfish ballast hopper wagon 993039 built in 1959. (Operational, painted BR Black) BR Dogfish ballast hopper wagon 983586 built...
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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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South Wales railways into the GWR following the Railways Act 1921, and promoted the use of 20 ton wagons to bring efficiencies to the railway's coal trade...
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Violet Town rail accident (redirect from Violet town railway disaster)
first time. Owned and operated jointly by the Victorian Railways (VR) and New South Wales Government Railways (NSWGR), the Southern Aurora ran in both directions...
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The Department of Railways was a subdepartment of the Victorian Government's Board of Land and Works that was the first government operator on the Victorian...
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Geelong at Craigieburn Victorian Railways Preserved C Class leader C501 in between Seymour Railway Heritage Centre's Victorian Railways T class (T357) and...
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V/Line A class (redirect from Victorian Railways A Class (Diesel))
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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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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the Victorian Railways between 1966 and 1976. In preparation for the opening of the standard gauge line between Melbourne and Albury, the Victorian Railways...
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Downpatrick & County Down Railway". Facebook. "An Act for regulating the Gauge of Railways" (PDF). 18 August 1846. pp. 409–411 – via Railways Archive. "Rolling...
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Southern Shorthaul Railroad (redirect from Southern Shorthaul Railway)
BGKF and 9 BGGX wagons, were converted to broad gauge, and new standard gauge wagons were purchased to service the NSW facility. Victorian grain operations...
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locomotive overturned, and many goods wagons were derailed and damaged. On 11 October 1979, a wheat train derailed and some wagons ploughed into the station building...
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for modern railways. The railways carried freight and passengers with also the world's first goods terminal station at the Park Lane railway goods station...
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Clyde Engineering, Granville for the Victorian Railways between 1955 and 1968. In July 1954, the Victorian Railways placed an order with Clyde Engineering...
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currently in use as a bookshop. Historic Carriage and Wagon Shed – a large number of coaches and wagons await restoration here, either in the sidings or 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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main entities: Newport Workshops of the Victorian Railways, Islington Workshops of the South Australian Railways, Fitzroy Workshops of the Metropolitan...
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V/Line N class (redirect from Victorian Railways N Class (Diesel))
Somerton 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...
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goods wagons running behind the passenger coaches. Towards the end, no shunting took place at the intermediate stations. Some private railways once ran...
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