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

   Photos   for  'X  '

   FileID  Description................................................

   CQ836   X        -  4wh car on breakdown train, distant, Ballarat East, 1950s, [sPHD]
   AA090   X     21, [oMDN]
   AA862   X     21, 1925, [oMDN]
   AD482   X     21, [sFXK]
   AU291   X     21, Spencer Street, c1924, [oMDN]
   AA865   X     29*, 1925, [oMDN]
   CK520   X     40, Spencer Street, 1968, [oPJV]
   AQ689   X     40 - part view, Spencer Street, 5/10/1968, [oPJV]
   AR961   X     40 - Veteran Train, Spencer Street, 10/1968, [oPJV]
   AD352   X     76 - as work sleeper, 1940, [oFXK]
   AA091   X     79, [oMDN]
   AS184   X     79 - as works car, [sFXK]
   AS187   X     79 - shows shadow detail, [sFXK]
 

   Diagrams   for  'X  '

   FileID  Description................................................

   BF682   X        -  (A) 3 dia, [sPJV]
   BF681   X        -  (A) 4 dia, [sPJV]
 

   No photos found for XH   

   No diagrams found for XH   

File c048m compiled by Peter J. Vincent, updated 2/4/2007