Below is a list of freight wagons that are housed at the National Railway Museum.
Bogie Steel Vans M7346, M7038 and MG39
Bogie Refrigerator Car RBP9003
Open Wagon Y5017 (restored as NGAS373) & Y5019
Commonwealth Railways
Standard Gauge
Class operators: Commonwealth Railways
Condition: Good
Entered service: 11.3.1916
Entered the museum: 6.3.2001.
Length (over coupling points): 20’ 6’’
Load Weight: 50 tons
Number in class: 125
Ownership: Port Dock Station Railway Trust
Provenance: Commonwealth Railways
Tare Weight: 6 tons 15 cwt
One of 125 Ballast Wagons used on the standard gauge Trans-Australia railway of the Commonwealth Railways. In 1965 it was sold to BHP for use on its operation at Proper Bay, including the Coffin Bay tramway, near Port Lincoln South Australia.
Around 1999 it was sold as scrap to Lukins of Port Lincoln. Museum member Nic Doncaster saved it from being scrapped, in 2000, by purchasing it and donating it to the museum. It arrived on site on 6.3.2001.
South Australian Railways
Narrow Gauge
Class operators: South Australian Railways
Condition: Good
Entered service: 1942
Entered the museum: 1989
Ownership: Port Dock Station Railway Trust
Provenance: South Australian Railways
Withdrawn: 1989
Narrow gauge flat wagon built by the South Australian Railways at the Islington Workshops during 1942. It was obtained by the museum in 1989.
South Australian Railways
Broad Gauge
Class operators: South Australian Railways
Condition: Good
Entered service: 1916
Entered the museum: 3/5/1995.
Number in class: 3
Ownership: Port Dock Station Railway Trust
Provenance: South Australian Railways
Withdrawn: 1995
Bogie match wagon built by Gray Brothers, Port Adelaide in 1916. It was converted to use with Accident Crane No. 3.
Bogie Steel Vans M7346, M7038 and MG39
South Australian Railways
Broad Gauge
Class operators: South Australian Railways
Provenance: South Australian Railways
Condition: Good
Ownership: Port Dock Station Railway Trust
Entered service: 1925
Number in class: 500
A total of 500 M vans were built during Commissioner Webb’s rehabilitation scheme of South Australian Railways in the mid-1920s. They were used for general freight on the broad gauge system of the South Australian Railways.
The museum has M vans No.7436, 7038 and MG39 (ex M7497).
South Australian Railways
Broad Gauge
Class operators: South Australian Railways
Provenance: South Australian Railways
Condition: Good
Ownership: Port Dock Station Railway Trust
Entered service: 1931
Entered the museum: 22nd December 1988
Number in class: 2
In 1874 the South Australian Railways had begun the construction of narrow (3’ 6’’) gauge lines throughout the colony. There subsequently arose the necessity of transporting narrow-gauge locomotives and rolling stock over the broad-gauge to and from the workshops in Adelaide. Plans were drawn up for an Engine Carriage Bogie Truck, and the vehicle, which was given the number 19, was created by the Adelaide Locomotive Works in 1884. Of traditional Well Wagon pattern it was unusual in that, instead of normal bogies, the driving wheels and portions of the frames from two of the original locomotives were used. It is possible that they came from Nos.2 and 3, however no records have been found to support or disprove this supposition.
When classification letters were allocated to rolling stock in 1888, No.19 was classified WL. At some time during its career it also acquired the nickname The Crocodile, which eventually gained official recognition. It found considerable employment, the conversion to broad-gauge of the old Western System during the 1920s notwithstanding. In 1931 Islington Works manufactured a similar vehicle, this time equipped with conventional bogies, which became WL.8200, and 19 was renumbered 8202. However, with the conversion to broad-gauge of the South Eastern System in the 1950s and the standardisation of the Port Pirie to Broken Hill line in the late 1960s, both vehicles were used less and less. No.8202 was condemned on 2nd May 1977 and broken up, one bogie going to the Mile End Railway Museum and the other to SteamRanger.
No.8200 survived complete and was used to transport several locomotives to the Museum before being placed in the collection on 22nd December 1988.
Bogie Refrigerator Car RBP9003
South Australian Railways
Broad Gauge
Class operators: South Australian Railways
Condition: Good
Entered service: 7/10/1933
Entered the museum: 31st March 2004
Length (over coupling points): 38’ 10’’ (11.84m)
Load Weight: 33 tons (33,000kg)
Number in class: 44
Ownership: Port Dock Station Railway Trust
Provenance: South Australian Railways/Australian National
Tare Weight: 19t 12c (19,609kg)
Withdrawn: 20 May 1980
RB-class bogie refrigerator car No. 9003 was built at South Australian Railways’ Islington Workshops in 1933. It was transferred to the Barmera - Adelaide milk traffic on 6 July 1937. Fitting of high speed bogies on 2 October 1967 resulted in it being reclassed RRP9003, and it was later reclassed RBP9003 on 19th November 1971 when passenger car bogies were fitted (wagons 9002 - 9028 were built as RB-class, 9029 - 9044 as RBP-class).
Wagons 9002 - 9004 were built with a single door each side, but were later rebuilt with two. Under South Australian Railways ownership, they were painted Aluminium and Royal Blue, and equipped with SME brake gear for use behind 250-class railcars.
No. 9003 became Australian National Railway property during the sale the South Australian Railways’ country operations to the Commonwealth. On 28 February 1980 it was reclassified ARPY 9003 and condemned on 20 May 1980.
SteamRanger (Australian Railway Historical Society SA Division) obtained the vehicle on 12 November 1986 and it was transferred to the National Railway Museum on 31 March 2004.
South Australian Railways
Broad Gauge
Class operators: South Australian Railways; Australian National Railways
Provenance: South Australian Railways; Australian National
Condition: Good
Ownership: Port Dock Station Railway Trust
Entered service: January 1954
Entered the museum: 26th January 1983
Number in class: 100
Tare Weight: 7 tons 15 cwt (7762 kilograms)
Load Weight: 9 head
Length (over coupling points): 20’ 10’’ (6.35m)
Like the Sf-class, the Cf-class was a 4-wheel version of larger bogie vans built in 1929. As with sheep the need arose for vehicles in which smaller numbers of animals could be shipped, and the first Cf van was placed in service in October 1953. The 100 vans of this class were unusual in that all wooden components were produced by the Islington Workshops while the steel underframes were manufactured by the Perry Engineering Co., Mile End. All passed into Australian National ownership in March 1978.
No.26 was condemned on 23rd November 1982 and passed to the Mile End Railway Museum on 24th January 1983. It was forwarded to the museum 5th June 1987.
South Australian Railways
Broad Gauge
Class operators: South Australian Railways
Provenance: South Australian Railways
Condition: Good
Entered service: May 1923
Entered the museum: 28th May 1987
Ownership: Port Dock Station Railway Trust
Number in class: 71
Length (over coupling points): 23’ 2’’ (7.06m)
Tare Weight: 10 tons 3 cwt (10,152 kilograms)
Load Weight: 12 tons (12,000 kilograms)
The 71 vans in this class were built by various builders between 1900 and 1923, and were used for the carriage of goods of non-perishable nature but requiring ventilation. Originally classed A, they were reclassed DA during the 1920s.
No. 4346 was the second last of the series, in May 1923, by the Perry Engineering Co., Mile End. In 1964 it was sent to Gillman Yard for use as a tool van, replacing N.251, until written off. It was placed in the museum on 28th May 1987.
Commonwealth Railways
Standard Gauge
Class operators: Commonwealth Railways
Condition: Excellent
Entered service: October 1914
Entered the museum: 24th May 1988.
Length (over coupling points): 37’ 6’’
Load Weight: 35 tons
Ownership: Port Dock Station Railway Trust
Provenance: Commonwealth Railways
Tare Weight: 17 tons 15 cwt 3 q
Withdrawn: 1988
This van was built by Gray Bros. of Port Adelaide as an R-class Flat Wagon, and would have probably been used to carry rail for the construction of the Transcontinental Railway. A year or so later it was rebuilt as a G-class Open Wagon, and ran as such until 1940 when it was again rebuilt; this time to a VZ-class Covered Van. Some time thereafter the Z was dropped and it ran as V.260 until reclassified ABGY by Australian National about 1980. It was donated to the Museum; being delivered on 24th May 1988.
South Australian Railways
2’ Gauge
Class operators: South Australian Railways/South Australian Department of Chemistry
Condition: Excellent
Entered service: 1906
Ownership: Port Dock Station Railway Trust
Withdrawn: 14th December 1964
Entered the museum: 1975
The South Australian Department of Chemistry opened an explosives magazine near Dry Creek, just north of Adelaide, in 1904. Originally horses and drays carried the explosives in magazines overland from Broad Creek. However, the construction of a 2 foot (609mm) Tramway in January 1906 brought this to an end.
This vehicle is one of a number that were pulled by horses on the Tramway from Dry Creek to a jetty at Broad Creek. This jetty was used for the loading of ketches in the North Arm of the Port Adelaide River, east of Torrens Island.
South Australian Railways
Broad Gauge
Class operators: South Australian Railways
Provenance: South Australian Railways
Condition: Very good
Ownership: Port Dock Station Railway Trust
Entered service: 1927
Entered the museum: 28th June 1988
Length (over coupling points): 46’ (14.02m)
Tare Weight: 16 tonne (16,000kg)
The FB-class flat cars were built in the 1920s under the direction of Commissioner Webb for carrying general freight. They were recoded AFFA in the 1970s.
The museum has FB No.8500.
South Australian Railways
Broad Gauge
Class operators: South Australian Railways
Provenance: South Australian Railways
Condition: Good
Ownership: Port Dock Station Railway Museum
Entered service: 1926
Entered the museum: 1995
South Australian Railways 4 wheel fuel tanker built by the Victorian Railways at the Newport Workshops in 1926. It was transferred to the South Australian railways in 1961.
It was obtained by the Museum in 1995.
South Australian Railways
Narrow Gauge
Class operators: South Australian Railways
Condition: Good
Entered service: December 1912
Ownership: Port Dock Station Railway Trust
Provenance: South Australian Railways
Withdrawn: 1989
Length (over coupling points): 17’ 9’’ (5.41m)
Tare Weight: 5 tons 3 cwt (5152kg)
Load Weight: 11 tons (11,000kg)
Originally classed Z, this wagon is one of 25 built by James Martin & Co. of Gawler between September and December 1912. It is a smaller version of the broad-gauge Z-class wagon, and was used for the carriage of coal and ballast. No. 5108 was used on the Peterborough Division and finally on the Gladstone-Wilmington branch. Acquired by the museum, it was on loan to the Pichi Richi Railway during 1989.
South Australian Railways
Broad Gauge
Class operators: South Australian Railways; Australian National Railways
Provenance: South Australian Railways; Australian National
Condition: Good
Entered service: January 1945
Entered the museum: 24th July 1986
Ownership: Port Dock Station Railway Trust
Number in class: 550
Length (over coupling points): 22’ 10’’ (6.96m)
Tare Weight: 9 tons 12 cwt (9609 kilograms)
Load Weight: 15 tons (15,000 kilograms)
The practice of the South Australian Railways of building 4-wheel versions of larger bogie cars, and vice versa, extended to many types. When this occurred the 4-wheel version was given the same classification as the bogie wagon but with the suffix ‘f’ added. The DW-class was a bogie Louvred Van and the DWf its 4-wheel counterpart. Built to carry produce which needed ventilation but not refrigeration, 550 were built by the Islington Workshops between December 1944 and February 1955.
No. 4724 was one of the first batch of 50 and was placed in service in January 1945. Most of the class survived to be taken into Australian National ownership in 1978 but, thereafter, they were condemned in large numbers. 4724 placed in the Mile End Railway Museum on 24th July 1986. It was sent to the museum on 5th June 1987.
South Australian Railways
Broad Gauge
Class operators: South Australian Railways
Provenance: South Australian Railways
Condition: Good
Ownership: Port Dock Station Railway Trust
Entered service: 1944
Entered the museum: 1995
AOWF No. 58 is a timber bogie open wagon that was built by the South Australian Railways at the Islington Workshops. It was originally built as OW 5840.
AOWF 58 was obtained by the museum in 1995.
South Australian Railways
Broad Gauge
Class operators: South Australian Railways
Condition: Reasonable
Entered service: April 1902
Entered the museum: 16.09.1970
Length (over coupling points): 20’ 10’’ (6.35 metres)
Number in class: 47
Ownership: History Trust of South Australia
Provenance: South Australian Railways
Withdrawn: 1969
This is the match-wagon for the crane No. 2327. Built at the Islington Workshops in April 1902, it is one of 47 36’’ sided steel open wagons built between 1894 and 1903. Used to carry 11 tons of general freight they were soon eclipsed by the larger Y-class which were introduced in 1909. Most were converted to F-class flat wagons in 1932, and the remainder used for departmental purposes.
No. 363 assumed its role as match-wagon in 1932, was written off in 1969, and placed in the Mile End Railway Museum on 10th September 1970. It was moved to the Port Dock Museum on 18th June 1987.
South Australian Railways
Broad Gauge
Class operators: South Australian Railways
Provenance: South Australian Railways
Condition: Good
Ownership: Port Dock Station Railway Trust
Entered service: 1925
Entered the museum: 1988
OB No. 32 is a bogie steel open wagon built by the American Car Company, USA, in the 1920s for the South Australian Railways.
OB32 was obtained by the museum in 1988.
Open Wagon Y5017 (restored as NGAS373) & Y5019
South Australian Railways & Commonwealth Railways
Narrow Gauge
Class operators: South Australian Railways, Commonwealth Railways
Condition: Excellent
Entered service: November 1912
Entered the museum: 11th November 1988
Length (over coupling points): 17’ 9’’
Load Weight: 12 tons
Ownership: Port Dock Station Railway Trust
Provenance: South Australian Railways
Tare Weight: 5 tons 5 cwt
Withdrawn: 1988
General freight was carried over the narrow-gauge rails of the South Australian Railways in large numbers of small 4-wheel wooden open wagons. Wagons 5017 and 5019 belong to this type and were built at the Islington Workshops in November 1912.
Known as the Y-class these wagons were the final development of this type of wagon on the 3’ 6’’ gauge. Built for the Northern System, later the Peterborough Division, they were finally isolated on the Gladstone - Wilmington line with the opening of the standard-gauge line between Port Pirie and Broken Hill in January 1970.
5019 was placed in the Mile End Railway Museum on 24th July 1986, but 5017 came under Australian National ownership on 1st March 1978 and was not obtained by the museum until 1988.
They were sent to the museum on 5th June 1987 and 11th November 1988 respectively.
South Australian Railways
Narrow Gauge
Class operators: South Australian Railways
Condition: Good
Entered service: 1915
Entered the museum: 1988
Ownership: Port Dock Station Railway Trust
Provenance: South Australian Railways
Withdrawn: 1988
A four-wheel steel open wagon used extensively on the South Australian Railways narrow-gauge system.
The museum has No. 4913 built by the South Australia Railways at the Islington Workshops in 1915.
South Australian Railways
Narrow Gauge
Class operators: South Australian Railways
Condition: Good
Entered service: 1913
Entered the museum: 1988
Ownership: Port Dock Station Railway Trust
Provenance: South Australian Railways
Withdrawn: 1988
A four-wheel steel open wagon used extensively on the South Australian Railways narrow-gauge system.
The Museum has No .4947 built by Gray Brothers of Port Adelaide, South Australia in 1915.
South Australian Railways
Broad Gauge
Class operators: South Australian Railways; Australian National Railways
Provenance: South Australian Railways; Australian National
Condition: Good
Entered service: December 1952
Entered the museum: 24th January 1983
Ownership: Port Dock Station Railway Trust
Number in class: 180
Tare Weight: 9 tons 6 cwt (9304 kilograms)
Load Weight: 80 sheep
Length (over coupling points): 20’ 10’’ (6.35m)
This class of van is a 4-wheel version of the S-class bogie sheep vans which had been introduced in 1930. The 180 Sf-class were built between 1938 and 1953 at the Islington Workshops, and with a capacity of 80 sheep, provided the means by which farmers could ship smaller numbers of sheep - 40 per deck.
The museum’s vehicle, No.160, was placed in service in December 1952, taken into Australian National stock in March 1978, and condemned on 23rd November 1982. It was placed in the Mile End Railway Museum on 24th January and sent to the museum on 5th June 1987.
South Australian Railways
Broad Gauge
Class operators: South Australian Railways; State Transport Authority
Provenance: South Australian Railways; State Transport Authority
Condition: Very Good
Ownership: History Trust of South Australia
Entered service November: 1916
Entered the museum: 30th April 1983
Number in class: 93
Tare Weight: 9 tons 5 cwt (9254 kilograms)
Load Weight: 16 tons (16,000 kilograms)
Length (over coupling points): 24’ 4’’ (7.417m)
Hopper wagons were used to carry bulk commodities such as grain, coal or iron ore, which was usually loaded from overhead conveyors or bins and unloaded through doors in the bottom of the wagon into bins or silos. Today’s hoppers are large vehicles carrying up to 100 tons (100,000kg) but, in 1913, when the Z-class were introduced, 16 tons (16,000kg) was an average load. Ninety-three were built between 1913 and 1916 and were primarily used for the carriage of coal. In later years they were used as ballast wagons, and this is how 3236 finished its days working for the State Transport Authority. After being held in storage at the Penfield sidings for some time it was acquired by the Mile End Railway Museum on 30th April 1983, and eventually moved to the museum on 5th June 1987.
Built by James Martin & Co. of Gawler in 1916, No. 3236 is the only representative of the large number of goods wagons built by this company to be placed in the museum.
South Australian Railways
Narrow Gauge
Class operators: South Australian Railways
Condition: Good
Entered service: October 1899
Entered the museum: 23rd September 1988.
Length (over coupling points): 19’ 10’’ (6.05m)
Load Weight: 6 tons (6000kg)
Number in class: 60
Ownership: Port Dock Station Railway Trust
Provenance: South Australian Railways
Tare Weight: 6 tons 13 cwt (6660kg)
Withdrawn: 10th October 1979
At a time when covered freight vans had wholly wooden bodies and passenger cars had wooden framed bodies (although almost invariably on the South Australian Railways with protective steel sheathing panels), the narrow ‘V’ class louvre cars were unusual in having steel bodies, including louvres and doors. Concurrently with the construction of the first narrow gauge ‘W’ vans, similar but larger ‘A’ vans (later classified ‘DA’) were constructed. Utilising the same principles of construction for bodies, louvres and doors, the broad gauge ‘A’ vans were big brothers to the narrow gauge ‘V’ vans and the initial vehicles of both classes were described as being for the ‘carriage of dead rabbits’.
Constructed to five separate orders, nine vans were constructed at Islington Workshops during 1899 and 1900, to be followed by 11 and 10 in two orders from Islington between 1906 and 1908. J. Martin and Co. Gawler, built a further 15 in 1911 and the final 15 followed in 1923 from the Perry Engineering Co., Gawler, giving a total of 60 vans. The first nine vans were placed in service on the northern and south-east narrow gauge systems, while in June 1916 the first ‘W’ van was transferred to the Eyre Peninsula lines. In 1921, the 45 vans then in service were distributed - 36 to the northern lines, eight in the south-east and one on Eyre Peninsula. By 1946 a total of 41 were in service on the Peterborough Division. With the broadening of the south-east lines, the 10 vans there were transferred to Port Lincoln in November 1952. During 1953 four Peterborough vans were fitted with internal padding for explosives traffic and classified ‘EFN’, later being reclassified ‘MFN’ when used as ordinary covered vans.
No. 1990 was one of the first ordered and was placed in service in October 1899 on the northern lines, where it spent all its working life. With the standardisation of the Port Pirie to Broken Hill line in 1970 and the isolation of the Quorn and Wilmington lines, V1990 was located on the Wilmington line. An early alteration was in 1905 when axles of larger capacity were provided and the pay load increased from the low figure of 4 tons to 6 tons, this still being less than the tare weight. In July 1917 air brakes were fitted to V 1990.
After being in service nearly 80 years, V1990 was written off on 10th October 1979, after purchase by the Museum. It was transferred to the Museum on 23rd September 1988.
South Australian Railways
Broad Gauge
Class operators: South Australian Railways; Australian National Railways
Provenance: South Australian Railways
Issued: 16/8/1951
Condition: Fair
Ownership: Port Dock Station Railway Trust
OF-class Steel Open Wagon No. 439 was issued to the South Australian Railways in 1951. In 1965 it was designated OF no. 198, which it kept until it was condemned in 1986.
South Australian Railways
Broad Gauge
Class operators: South Australian Railways
Provenance: South Australian Railways
Condition: Very good
Ownership: Port Dock Station Railway Trust
Entered service: November 1913
Number in class: 1262
Tare Weight: 8 tons 9 cwt (8457kg)
Load Weight: 17 tons (17,000kg)
Length (over coupling points): 22’ 10’’ (6.96m)
The most numerous of all wagon types is the open wagon and in South Australia, until comparatively recent times, it outnumbered the combined totals of all other types. The Y-class became the standard broad-gauge open wagon on the South Australian Railways in the years before the Webb rehabilitation, 1262 having been built by various builders between 1909 and 1923. In later years the class became much diminished by rebuilding to other types and conversion to narrow-gauge, and the remainder were largely displaced by the OF-class introduced in the early 1950s.
No.3582 was built by Gray Bros. of Port Adelaide in 1913. It was acquired from Australian National by the Mile End Railway Museum on 24th July 1986 and moved to the museum on 5th June 1987.
South Australian Railways
Broad Gauge
Class operators: South Australian Railways
Provenance: South Australian Railways
Condition: Good
Ownership: Port Dock Station Railway Trust
Entered service: 1929
Entered the museum: 24th October 1989
Used by Mobil Oil (formerly Vacuum Oil) for carriage of petroleum products to various depots on the broad gauge SAR network.
Commonwealth Railways
Standard Gauge
Class operators: Commonwealth Railways
Condition: Good
Entered service: 1915
Entered the museum: 26.10.1993.
Ownership: Port Dock Station Railway Trust
Provenance: Commonwealth Railways
Withdrawn: Unknown
Used to transport water for domestic and railway purposes on the standard gauge Trans-Australia railway of the Commonwealth Railways. Water capacity 18,000 litres.
Silverton Tramway Company
Narrow Gauge
Class operators: Silverton Tramway Company
Length (over coupling points): 7.9m
Condition: Good (after basic restoration)
Ownership: Port Dock Station Railway Trust
Tare Weight: 9.5t
Load Weight: 31.0t
Provenance: Silverton Tramway Company
Withdrawn: 1.1970
This narrow gauge bogie ore wagon is one of hundreds built and operated by the Silverton Tramway Co Ltd. Many of the 1920s built ON wagons were rebuilt and strengthened in the mid-1950s. The ONs were used to convey lead/zinc ore concentrate from the mines at Broken Hill to Port Pirie. This traffic was progressively converted into larger, more modern wagons, using the standard gauge railway, culminating in ON929 being placed out of use in January 1970.
It is an example (the only one) of a typical wagon used to convey ore via narrow gauge between Broken Hill and Port Pirie for more than 50 years. It would have been hauled by many of the locomotives on display at the museum, of the Silverton Tramway Co Ltd.
South Australian Railways
Narrow Gauge
Class operators: South Australian Railways
Condition: Good
Entered service: July 1914
Entered the museum: 1.9.1977
Length (over coupling points): 17’ 9’’ (5.41 metres)
Ownership: History Trust of South Australia
Provenance: South Australian Railways
Withdrawn: 13th April 1977
Drought is not an uncommon occurrence in South Australia and, in times past, it often became necessary for the Railways to transport water to badly affected areas. This required the building and maintaining of a large fleet of water tank cars to be held for such emergencies - Peterborough alone was once home for 120 such vehicles, which ranged in capacity from 1,200 to 3,000 gallons. However, exceptional circumstances sometimes required additional tanks and Temporary Travelling Tanks were sometimes fitted to the underframes of existing wagons. No. 5506 is in this category having been built as a Y-class open wagon, by J. S. Bagshaw & Co., in July 1914. The 2,000 gallon tank was fitted in March 1923.
Originally used on the Peterborough Division, No.5506 was sent to the South-East in January 1945, returning to Peterborough in January 1958. With the building of the standard-gauge line it was isolated on the Gladstone-Wilmington branch, where it remained until condemned on 13th April 1977. On 1st September of the same year it was placed in the Mile End Railway Museum, being transferred to the museum on 23rd September 1988.
South Australian Railways
Broad Gauge
Class operators: South Australian Railways
Entered service: October 1901
Condition: Good
Provenance: South Australian Railways
Ownership: Port Dock Station Railway Trust
Number in class: 10
Length (over coupling points): 19’ 3’’ (5.87m)
This is an excellent example of a wooden outside trussed covered van, a type once common on our railways. Placed in service on 29th October 1901 it was the last of a series of 10 built at the Islington Workshops. Its low stock number can be attributed to the programme of ‘Wagon Renewal’ (newly constructed wagons taking the numbers of recently scrapped older vehicles) which was then a common practice.
At some time during its career it was sent to Gillman Yard, Port Adelaide for use as a tool van, thus surviving the remainder of the class. On its replacement with DA-class van No.4346 in 1964 it was offered to the Mile End Railway Museum and, along with P-class 2-4-0T locomotive No.117, became the first exhibit placed on site on 18th June 1964. It was transferred to the Museum on 8th December 1988.