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Victorian Railways Z type carriage
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Victorian Railways· from 1957· class of Australian passenger cars
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Vline-bcz257-carriage: Marcus Wong Wongm· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. BZN271: Jlancaster447· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Z type carriages are an air conditioned steel passenger carriage used on the railways of Victoria, Australia. The carriages were constructed by the Victorian Railways from 1956 for use on interstate services. Two major types of carriage were constructed – thirteen AZ first class cars with closely spaced but smaller windows, and twelve BZ second class cars with wider spaced but larger windows (the thirteenth BZ entered service on standard gauge).
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 69 years ago, in 1957.
- 21.6 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 49 years (1957–2006).
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1957
- in service from
- 1957
- retired
- 2006
- status
- retired
- number built
- 27
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Victorian Railways
- operators
- V/Line, heritage railway
- top speed
- 113 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,600 mm Irish broad gauge
- formation
- Additional cars for N sets
- length
- 21.6 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q8063367, Wikipedia: Victorian Railways Z type carriage (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.