Class IM coal box wagons |
This class consisted of 75 wagons converted from the standard, N.Z.R. type , single bolster wagon in 1920-2. Unlike the longer M class wagons they could only carry two wooden coal boxes. From the mid twenties they began to be replaced by other types and had gone by 1936.
Right: IM722 blown up from a 1920's photograph of North Fremantle |
1920 | 585, 587, 593, 596, 598, 610, 628, 644, 674, 701, 703, 706, 707, 720, 722, 761, 766, 769, 775, 784, 794 from I |
1921 | 589, 591, 595, 600, 606, 613, 615, 620, 623, 625, 627, 632, 635, 640, 645, 646, 648, 653, 654, 655, 657, 665, 668, 672, 699, 715, 721, 723, 725, 726, 730, 731, 733, 734, 740, 742, 746, 749, 751, 755, 759, 762, 765, 767, 768, 770, 776, 782, 783, 786, 787, 789, 792 from I |
1922 | 597 from I |
1926 | 591, 595, 606, 615, 625, 635, 640, 645, 648, 653, 654, 665, 703, 723, 731, 765, 766, 787, 792, 794 replaced by GC |
1928 | 628 replaced by GC |
1929 | 746 to I
593, 600, 722, 786 to JETTY 357, 359, 361, 360 respectively 589, 769 replaced by M 627, 657, 783, 789 replaced by MA 587, 623, 646, 730, 734 written off |
1931 | 610, 699, 715, 721, 751 to I |
1934 | 742, 767 to I |
1935 | 585, 596, 598, 613, 620, 632, 644, 655, 668, 672, 674, 701, 706, 707, 720, 725, 726, 733, 740, 749, 755, 759, 761, 762, 768, 775, 776, 782, 784 written off.
770 to JETTY 298 |
At least two of the IM converted to JETTY wagons (ex 593 and 770) were reconverted to class I in the 1942 - 1944 period. |