E Open Wagon

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Class E
Vehicle type 4-wheel wooden open wagon
First introduced 1881
To Port Lincoln 1914
Ex Port Lincoln Early 1930s
Load capacity 6.5 tons
Number on Eyre Peninsula 150
Vehicle numbers E755-757, 759, 764, 766-767, 770-771, 777, 779-780, 782, 786-787, 791, 793-794, 796, 798-799, 803-804, 1231-1232, 1235-1237, 1239, 1241, 1243, 1245-1246, 1248-1255, 2097-2098, 2100, 2102, 2104, 2106-2107, 2110-2111, 2119-2121, 3069, 3071-3072, 3074-3076, 3079, 3081, 3084-3087, 3091-3092, 4327, 4329, 4331, 4333-4339, 4342-4344, 4346-4348, 4351-4358, 4361-4362, 4365, 4367, 4369-4370, 4372-4381, 4385, 4387-4390, 4396-4404, 4406, 4411-4413, 4415-4417, 4419-4420, 4422-4424 and 17 others not identified

To Port Lincoln 1914-1916. All condemned by early 1930s.

Unloading Tod River main water pipes, circa 1924. The left hand wagon under the pipe stack is E4346, and the similarities between the E class and the more common C class (the other wagon under the pipe stack) are obvious. Photo: Eric O'Connor Collection