User:Anothersignalman/Carriage Sets

This page will store my research regarding carriage sets used by VicRail and successors. References most likely do not meet Wiki's reliability requirements for now; I hope to find better references in the future.

Anothersignalman (talk) 14:54, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

=Notes= Colours are representative only, and do not directly correlate to liveries worn in the era.

After the car identities, "T" indicates through-cabled for head end power; H indicates that the car requires head end power for lighting and air conditioning but is fitted with batteries, and H indicates same without batteries.

Three-car sets had no prefix; F for four, V for five and (more recently) S for either Standard Gauge or Six-car sets, or numerals 4, 5 or 6 for unusual combinations of that many carriages. E, K and Z sets usually didn't have prefixes either.

Carriages were drawn primarily from the H, N, S and Z type fleets, with occasional E or K carriages and CD or CP vans included as required.

Carriage Workings
=Colour legend= For the purposes of tables below, these approximations of liveries have been used:

=H type sets=

Note the MTH cars were also converted from Harris carriages, but these are listed in the "other" category below as they ran more often with other carriages than they were attached to H sets. In later years two MTH cars were used on the Stony Point line on weekdays, with a third kept at Frankston station and coupled to the set on weekends and the fourth undergoing maintenance. Vehicles were swapped weekly.

=N type sets=

=Z type sets=

=E, K and other random type sets= E and K sets did not have numbers allocated.

The first Informal E set - 19BE-31BE-34BE-51AE - was sandwiched between van CD7 and Norman for the Albury trip on Sat 14 November 1987, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Spirit of Progress. Otherwise, the two sets were generally only used for Geelong weekday peak runs.

19BE was used as a loose car attached to set N9 on 22 October 1988. By 25 October it had been transferred to Z55, and was seen again in this set the following day.

Mid June to late July 1989 saw some unusual operations. In mid-June a set of CD-BK-BK was seen. On 4 July P11 hauled CP293-BK2-BK1; on 6 July a K set was reported but it is not clear how many vehicles were included. On 8 July CP293-51AE-4BE ran, and on 15 July the same arrangement (possibly with different vehicles) ran. On 17 July, MTH102-MTH103-CP292 and CP293-BK2-BK1 were seen, and the same again on 21 July.

In 1990 a review panel was commissioned to consider converting the mens' toilets in 51AE, 52AE and 1BG to unisex, and the ladies' toilets to a conductor's compartment.

=Other notes=
 * From November 1987, 4 and 5-car Z sets had the BRS cars shifted from position B to C.
 * ANR CD vans 3 and 7 were returned to ANR over the Christmas 1987 period, as CP291 and CP292 were delivered from Ballarat Workshops.
 * SS286 conversion to BS219 underway as at 1989-11-02.
 * 22 August 1990, up Geelong AM run was N454-50BE-ACZ253-BRS223-N5.
 * 25 November 1990: BRS223, MTH101, CP293 stabled at Seymour; BZS271 seen at Seymour.
 * CP293 had been "red carded" at Seymour on 04 December 1990. Between 02 and 04 February 1991 it was in use with Moorabool to test radio reception between Spencer Street, Geelong and Yelta for the Alternative Safe Working (ASW) project. Seen at Ballarat Depot on 20 March 1991.
 * 09 January 1991: AZ263, BZS271, BZS275, ACZ259, BS215, BS214 all converted from standard to broad gauge. Under conversion were VHN241, VFX216, VFX217 and VBK261, while VRS231, VRS232, VRS233, VFK272, VFK273, VFK274 and VFK276 were being retained on standard gauge.
 * CP294 delivered ex Ballarat Workshops in November 1990, for use with ex-Standard Gauge carriages. Through-cabled for head-end power.


 * As at 1989-12-19:
 * V/Line livery: VRS231, VRS232, VBK259, VBK261, VBK263, VFK272, VFK273, VFK275, VFK276, VFS214, VFR215, VHN241
 * VR livery: VRS233, VFK271, VFK274, VFX216, VFX217


 * As at 27 February 1991, 31BE, BS216 and BS217 were at Newport Workshops. The former was under repair, the latter two being converted from standard gauge.
 * As at 20 March 1991, 1BK and ACZ261 were under repair at Ballarat Workshops, while ACZ251, ACZ253 and 19BE had recently been outshopped.

As of May 1991: Head End Power: Battery: Diesel Alternator Unit: BS201-205 and 207-217 have woodgrain interior panelling; 206, 218 and 219 are painted.
 * ACZ259, ACZ261, AZ263
 * BZS271, BZS275
 * BS214, BS215, BS216, BS217
 * VRS231, VRS232, VRS233
 * VFK272, VFK273, VFK274, VFK276
 * ACZ251, ACZ252, ACZ253, ACZ254. ACZ255, ACZ256, ACZ257, ACZ258
 * BZ264, BZ265, BZ266, BZ267, BZ268, BZ269, BZ270
 * BS201, BS202, BS203, BS204, BS205, BS206, BS207, BS208, BS209, BS210, BS211, BS212, BS213, BS218, BS219
 * CP291, CP292, CP293, CP294
 * ACZ260, ACZ262
 * BRS221, BRS222, BRS223, BRS224, BRS225, BRS226, BRS227, BRS228, BRS229, BRS230


 * 11 April 1991, set 2AJ-7BJ-BRS222-5BJ-3PCO used on the Dimboola 1315 up passenger.

Workshop transfers

 * 10 March 1989: BS205 ex Ballarat Workshops.
 * 17 April 1989: ACZ252 to Bendigo Workshops.
 * 20 March 1989: ACZ253 ex Ballarat Workshops, repainted.
 * 25 March 1989: BZ268 ex Bendigo Workshops, last BZ to be repainted to grey-roof livery.
 * 17 March 1989: VFK274 repainted to V/Line livery.
 * 15 June 1990: BS207 ex Ballarat Workshops, fitted with through cable for head-end power.
 * 25 September 1990: BRS222 ex Ballarat Workshops post repaint.
 * 30 September 1990: BRS224 to Ballarat Workshops.
 * 10 October 1990: 1BK to Ballarat Workshops for overhaul.
 * 11 October 1990: ACZ257 to Bendigo Workshops.
 * 29 March 1991, ACZ261 outshopped ex Ballarat
 * 02 April 1991, AZ263 included in up Overland consist
 * 06 April 1991, BZ268 outshopped ex Ballarat
 * 17 April 1991, 1BK outshopped ex Ballarat
 * 16 June 1991: ACZ256 to Ballarat Workshops
 * 17 June 1991: ACZ260H ex Ballarat Workshops
 * 03 June 1991: MTH102 ex Newport Workshops, repainted.
 * 08 June 1991: 51AE at Ballarat Workshops due to leaking roof.

Easter workings
Not used during Easter 1986:
 * ACZ251
 * BRS223, BRS229
 * BZ264
 * BS207, BS213
 * 51AE
 * 50BES (until Friday), 19BE, SS285 (held at Mildura)

Not used during Easter 1987:
 * ACZ257
 * BRS221
 * BZ270
 * BS212 (until attached to Z56)
 * 51AE

Not used during Easter 1988:
 * ACZ252, ACZ254, ACZ257
 * BRS224, BRS227
 * BS203, BS211
 * 51AE, 4BE

Not spotted Easter 1989:
 * ACZ252, ACZ256
 * BZ264, BZ268
 * BRS226, BRS227
 * 51AE
 * BS203, BS207, BS209
 * CP292 and all CD vans
 * 1AK, 1BK, 2BK, 3BKL

=References not currently available to check=

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