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 1979 some where recoded VLEY to remove them out of the bogie exchange to be used for Freight Centre Traffic, from late 1981 most where recoded back to VLEX with a few still in service as VLEY till early 1983 with the last being coded back to VLEX, a few of the VLEY and VLEX where recoded VLNX in 1981 for News Print Traffc. 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 March 1992 number 942 had it's body removed and conveted to VZZF 2 to transport standard gauge bogie frames between Bendigo Workshops and North Melbourne.
In 1993, three VLEX vans were destroyed in a derailment in Western Australia. In lieu of repayment, V/line requested three comparable vans in exchange. The three replacement VLEX vans 873, 874 and 989 arrived in Victoria July 1993 as ex-WBAX boxvans and where painted Red.
This model represents the Type 2 VLEX that where transfered from NRC back to V/Line from 1996 to 2000 with NRC class boards and numbered 855, 858, 902, 922, 967 and 992 on Standard Gauge, Steps created by Zec.
Mass: 26.26 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