From the 1887 there was a group of baggage/mail vans assigned in Melbourne - Adelaide traffic on the 'Intercolonial Express'. During 1907, these evans were replaced by new express vans coded EEB_ and EES_. The EEB class were were coded D in the 1910 recoding. The EES class was recoded to _DS_ before coversion to D vans in 1923.
By the 1960's, the wooden vans had been scrapped.
The only remaining van was D 1 built in 1932 to replace a van destroyed in a derailment in 1923.
Photos
FileID Description................................................BD144 D 1 - Joint Stock, end clear, unloading, Spencer Street, 15/10/1976, [oRXO]AA025 D 2, [oMDN]AW567 D 2 - V&SA, c1927, [oMDN]AA026 D 4, [oMDN]AA861 D 4, 1925, [oMDN]AD505 D 4, [sFXK]
Diagrams
FileID Description................................................BF660 D - (EEB), [sPJV]BF654 D - ex EEB, [sPJV]AB752 D 1 - steel, [sD26]BF654 DS, [sPJV]
File c104m compiled by Peter J. Vincent, updated 15/5/2007
