Class BA Horse boxes

A rather battered looking BA1001 at Midland workshops, possibly just before conversion given the date on the underframe. (WAGR Official - RHWA collection)

The early W.A.G.R. horseboxes were all put into class A in 1900. However, all of the other two letter "A" codes were used by carriages and so when new horseboxes were constructed there was a bit of a classification problem. This was resolved by putting all of the later horseboxes into the "B" group.

The W.A.G.R.'s later horseboxes were the six BA bogie horseboxes (BA1000 - 1005) of 1903 and the eleven BB class large four-wheel horseboxes built from 1907.

The BA class horseboxes seem to have had a relatively uneventful life until the end of the large-scale use of horses after the Second World War. In 1952 numbers 1000-1002, 1004 and 1005 were converted to ZBA class brake vans numbered 435-439. Number 1003 was not selected for conversion for some reason and was written off in 1954. The Jetty list contradicts this and says that BA1001 became Jetty 214 in 1958. I suspect that it is the Jetty list that is in error and it was BA1003 that became Jetty 214. The WAGR outline diagram is shown below.

Other Horseboxes

The W.A.G.R.'s other horseboxes were classes A and BB.

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