X Open Wagon

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Class X
Vehicle type 4-wheel wooden open wagon
First introduced 1908
To Port Lincoln 1920
Ex Port Lincoln 1981
Load capacity 12 tons (1964: 13 tons)
Number on Eyre Peninsula 85
Vehicle numbers X3406, 3419, 3434, 3437, 3443, 3476, 3483, 3485, 3498, 3505, 3510, 3517, 3520, 3522, 3551, 3567, 3580, 3593, 3597, 3604, 3616, 3646-3647, 3654, 3661, 3678-3679, 3689, 3691, 3700, 3702, 3715-3716, 3739, 3744, 3756, 3792, 3800, 3815-3816, 3835-3836, 3842, 3845, 3849, 3863-3864, 3866-3867, 3883, 3887, 3893, 3900-3901, 3903-3905, 3924, 3926, 3930, 3937, 3945-3946, 3948, 3958, 3964, 3983, 4703, 4733, 4739-4741, 4747, 4769, 4775, 4793, 4805, 4811-4812, 4825, 4828, 4840, 4845 and 4850-4851

Twenty-five at Port Lincoln c.1937-46; most of these condemned 1964, replaced by additional transfers 1963-64. X3646, 3792 converted to XP pipe carriers Nov 1954. X3716, 3815 underframes to TS oil tanks 1935-36. X3483, 4741, 4769 to water tanks Jan 1934. Remainder condemned by 1981.

X3661 at Thevenard, September 1974. Photo: Alex Grunbach