G open wagon
G 79 at Albion Oct 6 1981
Photo courtesy Rob O'Regan
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As more bogie wheat hoppers were built the number of GY's was reduced by recoding some to G for general (non bulk grain) traffic, the original GY number was retained. The use of the letter G could be considered a mistake as the letter G had formerly been used to denote a bulk grain wagon (GZ, GY, GJF etc) At first the wagon was simply painted with a brown diagonal stripe (as shown above) but as the wagons were shopped they were painted in the usual VR wagon red (as shown below) | |||||||||||||||
G 539 at Albion March 16 1981.
Photo courtesy Rob O'Regan
GY 1 made it to a G and was photographed at East Yard, Jan 10 1983
Photo courtesy Rob O'Regan
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G 988 at Nth Geelong, Sept 27 1981.
Built as IZ 404 in 1930, recoded to RY 457, 1964, recoded to GY and grainproofed 1967, to G circa 1981. Photo courtesy Rob O'Regan |
G 2741, stencilled for Steamrail traffic, at Dynon, Aug. 8 1982
Photo courtesy Rob O'Regan
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