In 1964 the Victorian Railways built some large Louvre Van's as Prototypes for a new design of high capacity Van and where classified as VHX with a total of 20 built, in 1972 another 50 where built at Ballarat Workshops with lightened frames, 4 feet longer and classified as VSX becoming the largest Van Victoria had built, these where used all over Australia going on to Standard Gauge at Albury and into New South Wales, Broad Gauge into South Australia and bogie exchanged at Adelaide going into Western Australia, the design was so successful another 2 where built March 1973 then another 198 where built from April 1974 till 1976 at Ballarat Workshops.
They carried General Goods in crates and Pallets and where seen around Mildura, Warnambool, Geelong, Westall, Spencer St Yard, North Melbourne, Port Melbourne, Melbourne East Yard, Flinders St Yard, Tottenham Yard, Castlemaine, Bendigo, Wodonga, Albury, Maryvale, Bacchus Marsh, Ararat, Portland, Sale, Newport Goods Yard, Shaws Siding, Wangaratta, Woodend, Echuca, Dandenong, Morwell, Williamstown Pier and Ballarat.
On Standard Gauge they where seen Ubonia WA, Port Augusta SA, Zanthus WA, Wodonga NSW, Wodonga Coal Siding NSW, Albury NSW, Haig WA, South Dynon Vic and Munistone NSW.
This model represents the Type 1 built from April 1972 to Augest 1972 and numbered 801 to 850 on Broad Gauge, Steps created by Zec.
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