AZ 1st class, steel, saloon type, air conditioned.

AZ 1 at Albury 1984
Number in Class 13
Number group 1 - 13
Construction period 1956 - 1959
In service 1956 -
Where built Newport
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AZ's seated 48 first class passengers. The "Z" cars featured open or "saloon" type seating. They were 75 feet long and weighed 50 tons.

In 1961 the last 5 were recoded to VBK and placed on the SG for use on the SG Spirit of Progress.

On BG they were mainly used on longer dsistance trains.

AZ 8 at Spencer St 1979

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