#6558
Victorian Railways wooden bogie passenger carriages
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Unknown builder· railway carriages from Australia
what is it?
Victorian Railways, an Australian state railway operator, historically ran bogie passenger carriages, constructed with steel underframes and timber bodies up to 59 ft 9 in (18.21 m) long, as well as a few other carriages from the era. A total of 640 locomotive-hauled, wooden-bodied, bogie carriages were constructed between 1874 and 1903, mostly to variants of the basic design. All carriages were designed to fit within the Victorian Railways' loading gauge, and to run on rails spaced 5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm) apart.
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
- 11.9 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- —
- retired
- 1957
- status
- retired
- number built
- —
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Unknown builder
- operators
- Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway Company, Victorian Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,600 mm Irish broad gauge
- length
- 11.9 m
- capacity
- 52 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7907773, Wikipedia: Victorian Railways wooden bogie passenger carriages (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.