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. From 1990 and 1991 Some where fitted with plain doors and a few stencilled 'Paper Traffic Only Dynon - Dry Creek'. In 1994 these where recoded to RLEX handing over the rollingstock to the Federal Government operator National Rail Corporation and remaind on the Broad Gauge until April 1995 then they all went on the Standard Gauge with some being recoded RLLX while about half of the RLEX went back to V/Line from 1996. In 1998 some of the VLEX was fitted with Standard Gauge Constant Contact Side Bearer bogies and recoded VLEY and where placed in SCT (Specialized Container Transport) Traffic between Perth, WA and Laverton, Vic. From 1999 the state Government Privatised V/Line with the Freight being sold to an operator known as Freight Victoria which was run by share holders in England and United States of America, in 2000 they changed their name to Freight Australia.
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.
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.
From 1974 these wagons ended up in the workshops for minor repairs from getting into a bingle, several wagons where destroyed from derailments in SA and WA.
In 1998 numbers 1004, 1032 and 1037 where recoded VLEY and put on standard gauge for SCT Traffic.
This model represents the Type 2 VLEX in service from 1997 to 2000 with plain doors and numbered 1000, 1003, 1016, 1019, 1022, 1026, 1030, 1034 and 1043 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
Тип: traincar