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Port Adelaide
South Australia 5015

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76 Lipson Street
Port Adelaide
South Australia 5015

Open Daily 10am – 4.30pm

ANZAC Day from 12pm
Christmas Day Closed

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Steel Open Wagon Y3582

South Australian Railways

Broad Gauge

Class operators: South Australian Railways

Provenance: South Australian Railways

Condition: Very good

Ownership: Port Dock Station Railway Trust

Entered service: November 1913

Number in class: 1262

Tare Weight: 8 tons 9 cwt (8457kg)

Load Weight: 17 tons (17,000kg)

Length (over coupling points): 22’ 10’’ (6.96m)

The most numerous of all wagon types is the open wagon and in South Australia, until comparatively recent times, it outnumbered the combined totals of all other types. The Y-class became the standard broad-gauge open wagon on the South Australian Railways in the years before the Webb rehabilitation, 1262 having been built by various builders between 1909 and 1923. In later years the class became much diminished by rebuilding to other types and conversion to narrow-gauge, and the remainder were largely displaced by the OF-class introduced in the early 1950s.

No.3582 was built by Gray Bros. of Port Adelaide in 1913. It was acquired from Australian National by the Mile End Railway Museum on 24th July 1986 and moved to the museum on 5th June 1987.

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