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This page outlines the history and evolution of Victorian Railways bogie passenger carriages, constructed with steel underframes and timber bodies up to long, along with a handful of other carriages from the era. A total of 640 wooden-body, bogie locomotive-hauled carriages were constructed, mostly to variants of the basic design between 1874 and 1903. All carriages were designed to fit within the Victorian Railways' loading gauge, and to run on rails spaced apart. All were fitted with buffers, or later buffing plates, and all couplings were of the screw type. Then on 5 March 1903, a Canadian, Thomas Tait, was brought to Australia as the new Chairman of Commissioners for the Victorian Railways.〔http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14542244〕〔http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4929780〕 He immediately set out to introduce a new type of carriage inspired by the latest trends overseas; these would later be known as the E type carriages, with the first introduced to service in late 1906. ==Liveries== All carriages started in the Victorian Railways' then-standard dark maroon livery over a black underframe, with yellow pinstriping and details. During and after World War 1 the detailing was abolished and cars were plain red, with black rectangles behind white text for running information - class and identity. 1954 saw a change to a much brighter red livery. Not many cars survived to the 1972 change from "Second" class to "Economy". 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 wooden bogie passenger carriages」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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