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V&SAR Intercolonial Express Carriages
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Unknown builder· 19th-century carriages on the Adelaide–Melbourne railway line
what is it?
V&SAR Intercolonial Express Carriages were carriages on a new train called the Intercolonial Express running on Victorian Railways and South Australian Railways in 1887. The track of two railways met on Wednesday 19 January 1887. The Victorian Railways' Western Line to Dimboola, and the South Australian Railways' Wolseley line, met at Serviceton.
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
- 18.6 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- —
- retired
- 1932
- status
- retired
- number built
- —
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Unknown builder
- operators
- Victorian Railways, South Australian Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
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- length
- 18.6 m
- capacity
- 20 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q28428380, Wikipedia: V&SAR Intercolonial Express Carriages (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.