• 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 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    cost of £11.3 million, it is based on the former "Timothy Hackworth Victorian Railway Museum". The museum is operated in partnership with Durham County...
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    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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    timetabled trains. (However, the tradition of private owned wagons continued on railways in Britain until the 1960s.). The S&DRs chief engineer Timothy...
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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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    service again. Ownership of the 4D was transferred back to the Victorian Government's Department of Infrastructure, and the set was moved under its own power...
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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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    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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