| Class HB low-sided wagons |
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HB3965 - WAGR official photo taken around the 1940s (RHWA collection) | |
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In 1926 class HB was produced by the conversion of a number of J class tankers and G class open wagons. They were intended for transporting harvesters and although they used the standard N.Z.R. type underframe the bodies were 8'-0" wide compared to the 6'-10" of a standard H class wagon. Eventually the class totalled seventy-seven wagons. | |
| 1926 | 340, 477, 798, 847, 851, 1136, 1217, 1235, 1484, 1907, 1916, 1990, 2310, 2331, 2343, 2362, 2416, 2618, 2627, 2673, 2679, 2699, 2706, 2722, 2790, 2836, 2844, 3083, 3117, 3134, 3668, 3701, 3705, 3706, 3716, 3721, 3793, 3795, 3833, 3860, 3872, 3912, 3917, 3923, 3930 3954, 3961, 3965, 4011, 4048, 4057, 4091, 4094, 4115, 4132 converted from J |
| 1927 | 454, 1028, 1472, 3831, 3935, 4003, 4102, 4124 ex J
512, 1175, 2708 ex G |
| 1928 | 2690 ex J |
| 1930 | 77, 1927, 2029, 2257, 2496, 2576, 2692, 2792, 3708, 4921 ex J |
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The WAGR outline diagram is shown below.
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| These wagons were written off over a long period, but it is probable that all of the ones which went before 1968 were accident victims. |
| 1945 | 3872 written off |
| 1948 | 2792 written off |
| 1950 | 2699 written off |
| 1953 | 2257, 4132 written off
2690 missing at stocktake |
| 1960 | 2836 written off |
| 1962 | 3708 written off |
| 1963 | 4102 written off |
| 1968 | 77, 454, 477, 798, 1028, 1136, 1990, 2343, 2627, 2844, 3134, 3831, 3917, 3961, 3965, 4091, 4094, 4921 written off |
| 1970 | 851, 1175, 1472, 2362, 2416, 3083, 3117, 3860, 3954, 4124 written off
1217, 2679 to JETTY 18, 14 respectively. |
| 1971 | 340, 1484, 1927, 2310, 2692, 2722, 4048, 4057,4115 written off
2496 to JETTY 33 |
| 1972 | 847, 1235, 2029, 2331, 2618, 2673, 2706, 2708, 3668, 3705, 3721, 3793, 3795, 3833, 3912, 3923, 3930, 4003, 4011 written off
3716 to JETTY 48 |
| 1973 | 1907, 1916, 2790, 3701, 3935 written off |
| 1976 | 2576, 3706 written off |
| 1977 | 512 written off |
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