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South Australian Railways steel carriage stock
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by South Australian Railways· from 1936· South Australian Railways passenger cars
what is it?
Between 1936 and 1942, the South Australian Railways built 36 steel passenger cars at its Islington Railway Workshops for its country services. All were painted cream and green; they were repainted maroon and silver in the 1960s. Aside from a few written off after accidents, all passed to the Australian National Railways Commission in March 1978.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 90 years ago, in 1936.
- Still in service after 90 years.
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1936
- in service from
- 1936
- status
- in service
- number built
- —
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- South Australian Railways
- operators
- South Australian Railways, V/Line, heritage railway
- top speed
- 115 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,600 mm Irish broad gauge
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q19879198, Wikipedia: South Australian Railways steel carriage stock (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.