Peter J Vincent's Website

Rail Photography - Rob O'Regan

NSW Rollingstock

Andrew Mays West Australian Rolling Stock

Preservation
Sites

National Railway Museum - Port Adelaide

Commercial
Sites

Series 567 Rail Video

Cygnetic - Hobbies in Riddells Creek

Volume 3 - A Brief History of Bogie Freight Wagons of Victoria

1979 to 1999

Cover Design Mark Bau and Peter J Vincent

    This book covers the Victorian Railways Bogie Wagons from 1979 when the four letter classification code was introduced to the demise of Government owned Railways in Victoria when the Government owned Rail Freight business was sold to Freight Victoria on 22nd February 1999 for $163m.

     It contains over 250 A4 size pages and over 400 black and white photographs with a tear resistant cover.  It describes every known vehicle of the era., by class, number range and number in class.  It also states where they were built.  When they were built and the many modifications along the way.  Also covers length, width, height, bogie centres, tare and capacity. 

Volume Three was released in January 2006 and was reviewed in Australian Model Railway Magazine - June 2006, page 54 to 55

We have included a Color Photo Gallery of selected Bogie Wagons from Volume 3 to help with a color reference for making models if needed. You can see them here

Please contact us if you have any omissions, changes or additions to any of these book here.

Corrections to Volume 3 can be downloaded here