Puffing Billy Railway
3 NUU - Louvred Truck, 3/12/1900
Van 3 NUU - Louvred Truck (11)
VR Service History
3/12/1900 NWS Built new
Vehicle Length 25 feet 2 inches ( 7671 mm)
Coupled Length 27 feet 4 inches (8330 mm)
Width 6 feet 3 inches (1905 mm)
Weight 7 tons
Capacity 10 tons
Built 1898 - 1911
Number Built 14
In use 5
To be restored None
*NUU 3.VA - 3/12/1900 NWS Built new -
/ /1926 - To NU 3.VA -
NU 3.VA - circa 1926 - Modified AC Malco
1/10/1977 - Off Register To ETRB Sec76/3630 RS77/4223
NUU
The standard louvre van design for the Victorian narrow-gauge lines, the NUU vehicles were constructed in three batches; the first seven from 1899 to 1901, an eighth in 1906 and the last six in 1911, for a total class of fourteen. They looked very similar to the U vans of the Broad Gauge, although two photographs[1][2] of NUU 1 show that its body may have been white for some time.
NU
In 1926 the class was relettered to simply NU, with no changes to numbers. NU 4 was scrapped in 1938, but otherwise the class remained intact until 1954, when seven members (2, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11 and 12) were sold to Coulston & Hyder, who dispersed the wagons among locations on the Wangarrata to Whitfield line. As of 1996, vans 7 and 12 were at Moyhu, while van 11 was destroyed by fire in 1978. Wagons 6 and 1 were scrapped in 1957 and 1958 respectively, while in 1954 van 13 was recorded as being sold to the Puffing Billy Preservation Society. In 1977, the remaining vans 3, 10 and 14 were handed over to the Emerald Tourist Railway Board, and removed from Victorian Railways records. The Puffing Billy Railway now posesses vans 3, 8, 10, 13 and 14.
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Puffing Billy Railway
Puffing Billy Railway