Valley Heights Steam Tramway
Exhibits
S truck 4360
TYPE FIXED WHEELBASE 4 WHEEL TRUCK.
The original S type open wagons were built between 1907 and 1921 but during the 1940's a replacement programme was instituted with the ordering of 10 000 standard underframes and components from Commonwealth Engineering with the bodies from Clyde Workshops. They were delivered 1945-1958 and were allocated various numbers.
This photo of S 4360 at Valley Heights museum 14 May 2005
The wagons have a steel underframe with a steel and wood composite body and a wooden floor. The sides are 915 mm high and there is a 2.13 metre downward folding door each side.
| Length: | 5.49 m | |
| Width: | 2.92 m | |
| Height: | 2.13 m | |
| Tare: | 8 t | |
| Capacity: | 16 t | |
| Wheelbase: | 3.05 m | |
| S number in service: | 1607 |
Text from Railway freight wagons in New South Wales 1982, © John Beckhaus. Australian Railway Historical Society NSW Division, 1982. Used by permission.
S 4360 was built in 1921.
More information and photos
S Class Freight Trucks preserved at Canberra Railway Museum
