| Class BS Cattle trucks. |
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The rise of the motor car between the wars meant that the demand for the old A class horseboxes declined and so numbers A5105, 5108, 5109, 5110, 5112, 5114, 5122, 5123, 5124, 5127, 5131, 5133, 5134, 5138 and 5142 were converted to BS class cattle wagons. This conversion programme involved horseboxes of three different types. The oldest vehicles (5105, 5108, 5109, 5110, 5112, 5114) predated the N.Z.R. type underframe. The last wagon (5142) was likely an ex G.S.R. 14'-0" vehicle whilst the rest were all N.Z.R. type. This wagon was also the first converted (in 1936) with the rest following in 1937. |
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The WAGR outline diagram is shown below. It is unclear whether they all looked like this or even were this length. |
| The advent of the new BE class cattle wagons meant that the old BS class could be withdrawn and they all went during the 1950's as follows: |
| 1952 | 5127, 5134 written off |
| 1953 | 5124 written off |
| 1954 | 5109, 5123, 5133, 5138 written off |
| 1955 | 5105, 5112, 5114, 5122 written off |
| 1956 | 5108 written off |
| 1957 | 5110, 5131, 5142 written off |
| Other Cattle trucks
The W.A.G.R.'s other cattle trucks were classes B, BD, BE, and the bogie vehicles in Classes T, TA and TAD. |
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