| Class CXA sheep trucks |
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WAGR official photo of CXA478 (RHWA collection) |
| The CXA class sheep trucks were a development of the CX class. The principal difference in the first vehicles built was the 9'-6" wheelbase 16'-0" steel underframe.
Later wagons were conversions of C and CX class wagons and retained the wooden underframe. |
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The steel framed CXA's were built over a period of eighteen years as follows: | |
| 1933 | 10070, 10071, 10077-82, 10202, 10336, 11304-11343 built |
| 1936 | 701, 706, 707, 717, 720, 725, 726, 729, 733, 739, 740 built |
| 1938 | 34, 43, 94, 146, 263, 269, 489, 506, 713, 721, 823, 1098, 1127, 1129, 1922, 1929, 1974, 1976, 2483, 2554, 2737, 2738, 2843, 3096, 3120, 3149, 3725, 3755, 3788, 3812, 3852, 4019, 4150, 4161, 4335, 4337, 4342, 4524, 4527, 4529, 5090, 5180, 5182, 6070, 6739, 6771, 7118, 7204, 7395, 7596, 7663, 9749 built |
| 1939 | 209, 231, 270,311, 367, 378, 395, 431, 453, 476, 478, 491, 504, 526, 579, 610, 756, 758, 797, 813, 817, 834, 837, 841, 843, 855, 872, 874, 879, 889, 895, 917, 919, 939, 959, 971, 1024, 1079, 1086, 1095, 1105, 1131, 1140, 1146, 1167, 1172/6, 1209, 1229, 1265 built |
| 1947 | 11351-9, 11361, 11363-8, 11370-3, 11375, 11382, 11383, 11386, 11387, 11392-4, 11396, 11397, 11400, 11401, 11403 built |
| 1948 | 11360, 11362, 11369, 11374, 11376-9, 11380, 11381, 11384, 11385, 11388, 13889, 11390, 11391, 11395, 11398, 11399, 11402, 11404-11450 built |
| 1949 | 12051-4, 12056-9, 12060, 12061, 12063, 12072-81, 12087-12107, 12112, 12114-8 built |
| 1950 | 12055, 12062, 12064-12071, 12082-6, 12109-12111, 12113 built. |
| 1951 | 12119-12150 built |
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The WAGR outline diagram of the steel framed CXA's is shown below.
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Rebuilds of C and CX class wagons from 1933 were to the CXA standard but on GC type wooden underframe. A there was little difference between a CX and a wooden framed CXA it is possible that the 1953 reclassifications had been rebuilt some time previously. |
| 1932 | 122, 126, 8240 from CX |
| 1933 | 8237, 8242, 8252, 8256, 8274, 8284, 9724 from C |
| 1935 | 8241, 8250, 8260, 8282 from C
6335, 7896, 7956 from CX |
| 1936 | 8254, 8276 from C
1012, 7888, 8947 from CX |
| 1937 | 8259, 8264, 8272, 8275 from C
7879, 8032 from CX |
| 1938 | 8251 from C |
| 1939 | 8239, 8262, 8263 from C |
| 1940 | 8238, 8273 from C
6331, 7713, 7761, 7889, 9128 from CX |
| 1941 | 7726, 7804, 7879 from CX |
| 1942 | 8249, 9723 from C
1395, 7274, 8247 from CX |
| 1943 | 8278 from C
6324, 7434, 7783, 7891, 8249, 8336, 8411, 8708, 10916 from CX |
| 1944 | 8255 from C
6319, 7557, 7752, 7838, 7855, 7863, 7893, 7898 8609 from CX |
| 1945 | 8267 from C
131, 6337, 7540, 7899, 9079, 10097 from CX |
| 1947 | 133, 375, 6328, 7038, 7132, 7166, 7275, 7650, 7780, 7848, 7885, 7895, 8306, 8310, 8362, 8615, 8685, 8719, 8733, 8850, 8949, 10102, 10106 from CX |
| 1953 | 119, 124, 127, 335, 1919, 3497, 6339, 6857, 6885, 6986, 7091, 7607, 7647, 7862, 7865, 8010, 8083, 8244, 8286 8836, 9160, 9227, 10098, 10099, 10104, 10105, 10900, 10912, 10918 from CX |
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The WAGR outline diagram of the wooden underframed CXA's is shown below.
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Frank Stamford's photo shows Wooden underframed CXA10105 at Geraldton in February 1966. |
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None of the CXA's were written off before the Second World War but the arrival of the new CXB class wagons started the reduction in numbers. Many of the steel underframed wagons were rebuilt to other classes: |
| 1956 | 12124 written off |
| 1960 | 11429 written off |
| 1961 | 11351 written off |
| 1963 | 12057, 12112 written off
12097 to MS |
| 1965 | 959, 4337, 5182, 11315, 11361, 12105 written off
34, 43, 506, 579, 610, 729, 817, 889, 1095, 1976, 2483, 3788, 4161, 10078, 11311, 11313, 11319, 11320, 11323, 11332, 11356, 11362, 11363, 11364, 11370, 11377, 11385, 11392, 11404, 11408, 11417, 11418, 11424, 11432, 11439, 11441, 11446, 12052, 12058, 12061, 12074, 12075, 12078, 12083, 12089, 12104, 12113, 12119, 12120, 12121, 12125, 12126, 12128, 12129, 12130, 12131, 12132, 12133, 12134, 12135, 12137, 12138, 12139, 12140, 12142, 12144, 12145, 12149, 12150 to GE |
| 1966 | 12123, 12148 written off. The frames from 12148 were later used to build shunting tractor ST1.
12090 to MS |
| 1967 | 12051 to JOA
12143 to NS |
| 1968 | 1929, 4527, 5090, 7663, 9749, 11307, 11326, 11400 written off
231, 11310, 11334, 11353 to NS 11339 to MS, 11312, 12062 to JOA |
| 1969 | 4529 written off
713, 919, 11374, 12146 to J 378, 740, 855, 4019, 10071, 10202, 11305, 11321, 11324, 11342 to JOA |
| 1970 | 11333, 11383, 11384, 11387, 11409, 11423, 11438, 11450 to NS |
| 1971 | 10077 written off. Became JETTY 35
12109 to J 739, 841, 1129, 1229, 1974, 10082, 11331 to JOA 823, 1265, 12060, 12080 to MS 367, 4524, 6771, 11398, 12141 to NS 94, 270, 395, 491, 707, 720, 721, 843, 872, 874, 1098, 1127, 1131, 1146, 1922, 2554, 3096, 6739, 7118, 7434, 10070, 10080, 10081, 11309, 11314, 11316, 11318, 11325, 11330, 12081, 12084, 12110, 12127, 12136 to HE |
| 1972 | 701, 4150, 6070, 7204, 11426, 12064 written off
758, 11304, 11336, 12088, 12107 to J 12087 to JOA 11422, 11427, 11437 to NS |
| 1973 | 478, 726, 879, 939, 1140, 1167, 1176, 2843, 3755, 4335, 4342, 5180, 11308, 11317, 11322, 11328, 11335. 11338, 11352, 11354, 11355, 11360, 11371, 11381, 11382, 11386, 11391, 11396, 11410, 11411, 11419, 11421, 11425, 11434, 11436, 11440, 11442, 12054, 12056, 12059, 12067, 12070, 12076, 12077, 12091, 12095, 12102, 12103, 12106, 12108, 12122 written off
733, 11368, 11395, 12115 to NS |
| 1975 | 263, 269, 311, 453, 476, 706, 717, 756, 834/7, 895, 917, 971, 1086, 1172, 1209, 3120, 3149, 3852, 7395, 10079, 10336, 11306, 11327, 11337, 11358, 11365, 11366, 11367, 11369, 11380, 11388, 11393, 11401, 11403, 11405, 11412, 11416, 11427, 11428, 11430, 11433, 11435, 11443, 11444, 11445, 11448, 11449, 12055, 12063, 12069, 12072, 12073, 12086, 12092, 12099, 12100, 12111, 12147 written off |
| 1976 | 146, 209, 1024, 11357, 11376, 11406, 11415, 11420, 12053 written off
504 to J written off 12076 to MS |
| 1977 | 431, 725, 1105, 2737, 2738, 3725, 11340, 11341, 11343, 11413, 12079, 12116 written off |
| 1978 | 813, 1079, 11359, 12066, 12082, 12093, 12094, 12096, 12101, 12114, 12117 written off |
| 1979 | 489, 526, 797, 3812, 7956, 11375, 11378, 11379, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397, 11399, 11402, 11407, 11414, 11431, 12065, 12068, 12071, 12085, 12098 written off
489 and 526 officially recorded as "LOST" |
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In 1974 eighty-five wagons were marked "Midland - Robb's Jetty Area Only". The renumbering problem with 8276/367/364 noted in the official records shows the problem of interchange of identity between wagons. This comes up again with the conversion of 7434 to class HE. This MUST have been a steel framed wagon at the time of conversion and it seems likely that it had either swapped identities with one of the steel framed batch or been completely rebuilt at some point. The remaining wooden frame examples were disposed of as below. |
| 1945 | 8275 written off |
| 1947 | 8621 (ex 8275) reinstated |
| 1948 | 9724 written off |
| 1949 | 8237 written off |
| 1953 | 8262 written off
8276 renumbered 367 in error |
| 1954 | 126, 1395, 6319, 6331, 7166, 7274, 7540, 7557, 7726, 7761, 7888, 7891, 7899, 8239, 8240, 8241, 8242, 8250, 8254, 8255, 8263, 8264, 8274, 8278, 8282, 8284, 8326, 8362, 8411, 8621, 8850, 9128 9723 written off
367 (ex 8276) renumbered 364 |
| 1955 | 7848 written off |
| 1956 | 131, 1395, 7166, 7274, 7540, 7557, 7726, 7761, 7863, 7879, 7898, 7899, 8238, 8251, 8252, 8326, 8411, 8850, 9128 written off |
| 1957 | 133, 364, 6325, 6328, 6330, 6338, 6343, 7132, 7838, 7855, 7893, 8249, 8256, 8259, 8267, 8273, 8310, 8609, 8719, 8949 written off |
| 1958 | 6324, 7885, 8032, 8615, 9079, 10106 written off |
| 1959 | 7650, 7780, 7896, 7956, 8260, 8685 written off |
| 1960 | 335, 6337, 7895, 10097 written off |
| 1961 | 1012 written off |
| 1962 | 122, 7889, 8010, 8244, 8272, 8947, 10102, 10916 written off |
| 1963 | 6335 written off |
| 1964 | 7091, 7275, 8836, 9227 written off |
| 1965 | 10918 written off |
| 1966 | 3497, 6986 written off |
| 1967 | 127, 8286, 9160 written off |
| 1968 | 119, 6339, 7783, 8083, 10098, 10105, 10900 written off |
| 1969 | 6857, 7607, 7647, 7862, 7865, 7887, 10099, 10104 written off |
| 1971 | 1919 written off |
| 1973 | 7434 to HE!
6885 written off |
| 1975 | 124, 7876, 10912 written off |
| There is a picture of a pair of loaded CXA wagons in the Weston Langford collection. From 1964 some M.R.W.A. DXB class wagons were also classed CXA but these are dealt with on their own page.
Other Sheep trucks The W.A.G.R.'s other sheep trucks were classes C, CA, CX, and CXB , and the bogie vehicles in Classes S, SA, SA (later SX) and SXT . |
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