BAS-Class Ballast Wagon No. 615

Collections at the National Railway Museum

Commonwealth Railways

Standard Gauge

 

Class operators: Commonwealth Railways

Condition: Good

Entered service: 11.3.1916

Entered the museum: 6.3.2001.

Length (over coupling points): 20’ 6’’

Load Weight: 50 tons

Number in class: 125

Ownership: Port Dock Station Railway Trust

Provenance: Commonwealth Railways

Tare Weight: 6 tons 15 cwt

 

One of 125 Ballast Wagons used on the standard gauge Trans-Australia railway of the Commonwealth Railways. In 1965 it was sold to BHP for use on its operation at Proper Bay, including the Coffin Bay tramway, near Port Lincoln South Australia.

Around 1999 it was sold as scrap to Lukins of Port Lincoln. Museum member Nic Doncaster saved it from being scrapped, in 2000, by purchasing it and donating it to the museum. It arrived on site on 6.3.2001.

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