<kuid:404079:3660> VL VLEX T2dS 1984+

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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. From March 1978 numbers 1039, 1040, 1041, 1043, 1044 and 1045 where recoded VSF to remove them from bogie exchange and used for Freight Centre Traffic, in 1980 more where recoded to became VLEY with the remainder being recoded VLEX. By 1983 all of the VLEY had been recoded back to VLEX due to Truck Companies moving the same volume of freight but cheaper which caused some of the Freight Centres to close and no need for the dedicated stock.

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, Dandenong, Morwell, Williamstown Pier and Ballarat.

This model represents the Type 2 VLEX in service from 1983 to 1988 in V/Line livery and numbered 1000 to 1050 on Standard Gauge, Steps created by Zec.

Mass: 26.34 tonnes (empty) 75 tonnes (loaded)
Load Capacity: 50 tonnes
Max Speed: 96 km/h
Axle Load: 19 tonnes
Brake Cylinder: (1) 305mm x 305mm Air Slack Adjuster
Brake Ratio: 33.5% (Loaded) ~ 53.3% (Empty) Load compensating