The AA class was an express passenger locomotive that ran on the Victorian Railways between 1900 and 1932. The largest, heaviest and most powerful 4-4-0...
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the entire class built in-house at Victorian Railways workshops. The design, which started as a stretched evolution of the 1903 AA Class 4-4-0 with bogie...
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The DD class (later reclassified into D1, D2 and D3 subclasses) was a passenger and mixed traffic steam locomotive that ran on Victorian Railways from 1902...
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The T class are a class of diesel locomotives built by Clyde Engineering, Granville for the Victorian Railways between 1955 and 1968. In July 1954, the...
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The B class are a class of diesel locomotives built by Clyde Engineering, Granville for the Victorian Railways in 1952–1953. Ordered and operated by the...
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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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The C Class are a class of diesel locomotive built by Clyde Engineering, Rosewater for the Victorian Railways in 1977–1978. The C class were purchased...
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The S class are a class of diesel locomotives built by Clyde Engineering, Granville for the Victorian Railways between 1957 and 1961. The S class was based...
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operations. Most of the lines operated by the Victorian Railways were of 5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm). However, the railways also operated up to five 2 ft 6 in (762 mm)...
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The Victorian Railways B class was a class of 2-4-0 passenger locomotives operated by the Victorian Railways (VR) between 1862 and 1917, built by various...
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The X class are a class of mainline diesel locomotives built by Clyde Engineering, Granville and Rosewater for the Victorian Railways between 1966 and...
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The Y class are a class of diesel locomotives built by Clyde Engineering, Granville for the Victorian Railways between 1963 and 1968. In 1963, the first...
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is a list of Victorian locomotive classes, being classes of locomotive that have worked on railways in Victoria. The majority of Victorian steam locomotive...
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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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The F Class are a class of diesel locomotive shunters built by Dick Kerr Works for the Victorian Railways between 1951 and 1953. They are similar to the...
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The H class are a class of diesel locomotives built by Clyde Engineering, Granville for the Victorian Railways in 1968–1969. The H Class were built as...
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Class are a class of diesel locomotives built by Clyde Engineering in Somerton for V/Line between 1985 and 1987. By the start of the 1980s, Victorian...
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This page outlines the history and evolution of Victorian Railways (Australia) bogie passenger carriages, constructed with steel underframes and timber...
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The former Victorian Railways, the state railway authority in Victoria, Australia, built a number of experimental 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow-gauge lines...
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for V/Line in 1984–1985. The P class were rebuilt from Victorian Railways first series T class locomotives by Clyde Engineering for V/line. The rebuild...
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custom registration plate of MVORTL as M series plates are allocated to Victorian government vehicles and with it being placed into private ownership, was...
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The Victorian Railways and successors used a variety of railway wagons for the transport motor cars. When the need arose for a form of motor car transportation...
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The Victorian Railways' (VR) Royal Trains operated to transport members of the royal family on their numerous tours of Australia on the Victorian rail...
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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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Australian Railways Ge class) (2) 1898 Tobu Railway B1 class 4-4-0 (12 locos) 1902 Victorian Railways DD class 4-6-0 (20) 1904 Great Northern Railway (Ireland)...
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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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Goldfields Railway from Perth to Kalgoorlie that was being converted to standard gauge. They were a development of the Victorian Railways Y class. J101 was...
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History of rail transport (redirect from Victorian steam train)
Railway Lines". Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin (78): 49–63. JSTOR 43517553. A.A. den Otter, The Philosophy of Railways: The Transcontinental...
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The class are mechanically similar to the later XRB class B units. Here & There Australian Railway History issue 774 April 2002 page 154 X class rebuilding...
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introduced from 1897, were the first group of Victorian Railways passenger rolling stock to have their own distinct class. Despite what some records suggest, they...
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