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Victorian Railways Short W type carriage
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Victorian Railways· from 1911· wooden carriages of the Victorian Railways
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. 17CW van: Marcus Wong Wongm· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The W type carriages were wooden passenger carriages used on the railways of Victoria, Australia. There were two variants, short- and long-body vehicles, and this article deals with the former. Details on the latter can be found here.
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 115 years ago, in 1911.
- 17.7 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 73 years (1911–1984).
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1911
- in service from
- 1911
- retired
- 1984
- status
- retired
- number built
- 40
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Victorian Railways
- operators
- heritage railway
- top speed
- 113 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,600 mm Irish broad gauge
- length
- 17.7 m
- capacity
- 60 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q28428549, Wikipedia: Victorian Railways Short W type carriage (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.