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The Victorian Railways and successors used a variety of railway wagons for the transport motor cars. ==History== When the need arose for a form of motor car transportation between Melbourne and Adelaide in 1958, a new vehicle class was created. Previous to this, cars had typically been lifted by crane and secured on flat wagons, but this method of loading was slow and wasted a lot of space. The wagon entered a two-year trial period, and in 1960 the wagon was modified to permit roll-on roll-off loading and unloading. By 1961, the class had expanded to 22 members over two batches. Later wagons were built to altered, extended designs, and coded ALF, later ALX or ALP, with the "L" indicating the increased capacity and the final letter indicating the bogie type - F for freight trains, X for freight but convertible to standard gauge for runs to Sydney, and P for passenger trains at 70 mph. The early usage of the wagon was for carrying finished motor cars from Melbourne to Sydney and Adelaide.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=AX automobile transport )〕 The Ford Motor Company plant at Broadmeadows was one major source of the traffic, with Holden being the other between Melbourne and Adelaide.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=MLX - Motor Car Transport )〕 This traffic ended by the 1990s and the wagons were put into storage.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=VMBX / VMBY - Motor Car Transport )〕 The other traffic was the motorail service provided to passengers on long distance trains, allowing them to bring their car along with them. From the 1970s wagons were assigned to the ''Vinelander'' service from Melbourne to Mildura,〔 with additional wagons used on the ''Southern Aurora'' between Melbourne and Sydney,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=MBK / MBY - Motorail Transport )〕 and ''The Overland'' between Melbourne and Adelaide.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=ALF / ALP - Motorail service )〕 The latter train is the only one still running today, but has not had a motorail facility available due to the redevelopment of Southern Cross Station. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Victorian Railways motor car transport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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