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Victorian Railways S type carriage
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Victorian Railways· from 1937· class of passenger carriage used in Australia
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Restored victorian railways train: Marcus Wong Wongm· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. 5AS at Steamrail Victoria's Newport depot July 2019: Jason L· CC BY 4.0
what is it?
The S type carriages are a corridor-type passenger carriage used on the railways of Victoria, Australia. The first carriages were constructed by the Victorian Railways in 1937 for use on the Spirit of Progress, with additional carriages built for other trains until the mid-1950s. Introduced by Victorian Railways Chairman of Commissioners Harold Clapp for the Spirit of Progress service between Melbourne and Albury, the carriages lasted through many decades of regular service, with more than one operator.
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 89 years ago, in 1937.
- 22.6 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
- Still in service after 89 years.
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1937
- in service from
- 1937
- status
- in service
- number built
- —
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Victorian Railways
- operators
- Victorian Railways, V/Line, West Coast Railway
- top speed
- 113 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,600 mm Irish broad gauge
- length
- 22.6 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7395398, Wikipedia: Victorian Railways S type carriage (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.