X / XH - Fixed Wheel First Class Carriage

X

In the 1910 recoding, fixed wheel carriages coded _A__ were recoded to X and the numbers made consecutive. X numbers were 1 - 43, 45 to 82. The railways took the opportunity to consolidate the carriage stock as follows:

• X numbers 1 to 41 were filled by Second Class carriages coded _B__ which were originally 1st class cars when built in the 1880's. Cars A 1 and the Vision Test Car A 4 were the exception. Car A 1 was built in 1889 as an "Exhibition car". It still survives as a body in a paddock at Raywood, near the 25km post north of Bendigo. The car A 4 was used as a Vision Test Car and the writer can only summise the number was retained to assist in tracking the car.
• Numbers 43 and 44 were cars classed as XH. As these cars were out of service by 1913, the number '43' was re-used in 1925 when a Deniliquin & Moama Railway car was renumbered.
• Remaining A class fixed wheel cars were recoded and renumbered to X 45 - 82

Some survived to the 1940's in works car service before being coded to _W__ and then being placed onto bogie underframes as class _WW_

Vehicle history list - X

XH

Car XH 43 was recoded from _A__ 54 and XH 44 from A 61. Both cars being relettered in the the 1910 recoding. The 'A' codes for these numbers show no use of the suffix 'H' until the recoding.

XH 43 became _W__ 146 in 1913 and scrapped in 1931. XH 44 became _YH_ 382 in Oct 1910 and was scrapped in 1929.

Vehicle history list - XH