The Victorian Railways in Australia have had a vast range of hopper-type wagons over the last century, for transporting various types of free-flowing...
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hopper of the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad CDA wagon Gravity wagon, also called a slant wagon Hopper barge Victorian Railways hopper wagons...
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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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Hollywood Regency. The roof of two Victorian Railways hopper wagons resembled a mansard roof. The Australian Commonwealth Railways CL class locomotive also has...
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Foundation, a Japanese NPO Japan Cycling Federation A series of Victorian Railways hopper wagons Jordan canonical form of a matrix in mathematics Joseph Campbell...
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Unlike the broad-gauge, the Victorian Railways' 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow-gauge network never had four-wheeled trucks (aside from a handful of trollies)...
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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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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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Rail transport in Victoria (redirect from Railways in Victoria)
and in 1864, railways were extended to the Murray River port of Echuca. In the 1870s, the Government Railway Department (Victorian Railways) started to...
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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 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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ballast hoppers were given vacuum brakes in December 1903, and general goods wagons were constructed with them from 1904 onwards, although unfitted wagons (those...
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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 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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the Australian Railway Historical Society (ARHS) Victorian Division was allocated space at Newport Workshops by the Victorian Railways to develop a collection...
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Locomotion Museum (redirect from Locomotion: The National Railway Museum at Shildon)
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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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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give its wagons a permanent home. In August 2022, a complete ballast train composed of three hoppers and a plough van were delivered to the railway from North...
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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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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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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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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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on four tracks on the third storey; the wagon's bottom was opened, and the goods fell down chutes to the hopper floor below where they were sorted, before...
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V/Line G class (redirect from Victorian Railways G class (diesel))
By the early 1980s, the first generation diesels purchased by the Victorian Railways were nearly 30 years old, with an average fleet age of 20 years. In...
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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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class of diesel locomotive shunters built by Dick Kerr Works for the Victorian Railways between 1951 and 1953. They are similar to the British Rail Class...
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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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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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Freight Australia (category Defunct railway companies of Australia)
locomotives and more than 2,800 freight wagons, which had been owned and operated by the Victorian Railways and their successors. The newest and most...
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