CA bogie guards vans
ABOVE: CA 1 at Nth Melbourne workshops, 1979
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VR experimented with several different designs of bogie vans over the years. They were the basis for the ZLP vans that were introduced a year after these vans. As far as I know they wore passenger red for their entire lives, in the dying years of guards vans a few were painted in wagon red, (see VVAP 6 BELOW). They were built as C class and recoded CA in 1961. | ||||||||||||||
ABOVE: As built the CA class were coded C, they were recoded CA in 1961, photo date Sept. 1960 at Newport. Official VR photo
ABOVE: CA 4 at Nth Melbourne Jan 1978
CA 5 at ????
Photo courtesy Geoff Winkler
ABOVE: CA 6, photographed 1979 Photo courtesy Peter J Vincent
ABOVE: VVAP 6 at Sth Dynon, April 1987. By this time guards vans were no longer used on almost all trains and long rakes of them sat around Melbourne awaiting their fate.
CA 7 at ???
Photo courtesy Geoff Winkler
CA 12 at ????
Photo courtesy Geoff Winkler
CA 14, circa 1978
Photo courtesy Peter J Vincent
Interior view of the guards station of C 2 (later recoded CA 2) at Newport. Sept 1960.
ABOVE: CA under construction at Newport, 1960
Official VR photo
