Re: NSW Automobile Wagons - Are there still any in Service?

["Rod" <comtran@mpx.com.au>]

Jonathan Lau <jonlau@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> Stored at the end of the Chullora Industrial Sidings is a Automobile
> Wagon (NZNY 34514E). It appears to have been used to check height gauge
> clearance  as there are two "n" shaped metal bars on the top deck. Also
> a stairway has been provided between the top & bottom decks.
>
> The Railway Freight Wagons in NSW 1982 book states that there were 98
> NMNX type wagons built, along with 64 NMKX & 10 NMFF type wagons. With
> the loss of Car carrying & Motorail services over the last 17 years,
> what has happened to all these wagons? Are there still any in Service?
>
> Jon Lau
A lot of Car Wagons were sold for scrap. Many NSW and Victorian Vehicles, as
many as a hundred and perhaps more were scrapped in the late 80's and early
90's at the Bandianna sidings.
Rod