VL VLEX T1aS 1984+

VL VLEX T1aS 1984+

In 1964 the Victorian Railways built some large Louvre Van's as Prototypes for a new design of high capacity Van and where classified as VHX with a total of 20 built, in 1972 another 50 where built at Ballarat Workshops with lightened frames, 4 feet longer and classified as VSX becoming the largest Van Victoria had built, these where used all over Australia going on to Standard Gauge at Albury and into New South Wales, Broad Gauge into South Australia and bogie exchanged at Adelaide going into Western Australia, the design was so successful another 2 where built March 1973 then another 198 where built from April 1974 till 1976 at Ballarat Workshops. From 1979 some where recoded VLEY to remove them out of the bogie exchange to be used for Freight Centre Traffic, from late 1981 most where recoded back to VLEX with a few still in service as VLEY till early 1983 with the last being coded back to VLEX, a few of the VLEY and VLEX where recoded VLNX in 1981 for News Print Traffc.

They carried General Goods in crates and Pallets and where seen around Mildura, Warnambool, Geelong, Westall, Spencer St Yard, North Melbourne, Port Melbourne, Melbourne East Yard, Flinders St Yard, Tottenham Yard, Castlemaine, Bendigo, Wodonga, Albury, Maryvale, Bacchus Marsh, Ararat, Portland, Sale, Newport Goods Yard, Shaws Siding, Wangaratta, Woodend, Echuca, Dandenong, Morwell, Williamstown Pier and Ballarat.

On Standard Gauge they where seen Ubonia WA, Port Augusta SA, Zanthus WA, Wodonga NSW, Wodonga Coal Siding NSW, Albury NSW, Haig WA, South Dynon Vic and Munistone NSW.

In 1978 number 809 was destroyed at Ubonia, WA and in 1979 number 834 was destroyed at Zanthus, WA

This model represents the Type 1 VLEX in service from 1983 to 1988 in VR livery and numbered 803 to 850 on Standard Gauge, Steps created by Zec.

Mass: 25.26 tonnes (empty) 75 tonnes (loaded)
Load Capacity: 50 tonnes
Max Speed: 96 km/h
Axle Load: 19 tonnes
Brake Cylinder: (1) 305mm x 305mm Air Slack Adjuster
Brake Ratio: 33.5% (Loaded) ~ 53.3% (Empty) Load compensating

VL VLEX T1aS 1984+
• computerisation vlex.txt 28.17KB
• config.txt 17.72KB
• icon.tga 6.04KB
• screenshot.jpg 61.41KB
shadows
shadow.im 84.79KB
shadow.lm.txt 113 bytes
wagon
alpha.texture.txt 58 bytes
alpha.tga 64.04KB
digit_4.texture.txt 51 bytes
digit_4.tga 812 bytes
digit_5.texture.txt 51 bytes
digit_5.tga 812 bytes
digit_6.texture.txt 51 bytes
digit_6.tga 812 bytes
grade-control-lever-tris.im 506 bytes
grade-control-lever.im 17.04KB
grade-control-lever.kin 2.34KB
grade-control-lever.lm.txt 211 bytes
handbrake-tris.im 722 bytes
handbrake.im 36.86KB
handbrake.kin 16.43KB
handbrake.lm.txt 191 bytes
left-doors-low.im 1.79KB
left-doors-mid.im 51.88KB
left-doors-tris.im 626 bytes
left-doors.im 93.89KB
left-doors.kin 31.59KB
left-doors.lm.txt 297 bytes
letter_1.texture.txt 53 bytes
letter_1.tga 48.04KB
load-compensating-lever-tris.im 626 bytes
load-compensating-lever.im 20.52KB
load-compensating-lever.kin 4.96KB
load-compensating-lever.lm.txt 219 bytes
main-env.tga 12.00MB
main-main-env.texture.txt 49 bytes
main-normals.texture.txt 83 bytes
main-normals.tga 12.00MB
main-spec.tga 12.00MB
main.tga 12.00MB
mesh-step-env.tga 192.04KB
mesh-step-mesh-step-env.texture.txt 59 bytes
mesh-step-normals.texture.txt 93 bytes
mesh-step-normals.tga 192.04KB
mesh-step-spec.tga 192.04KB
mesh-step.tga 192.04KB
right-doors-low.im 1.79KB
right-doors-mid.im 51.79KB
right-doors-tris.im 626 bytes
right-doors.im 93.81KB
right-doors.kin 31.59KB
right-doors.lm.txt 301 bytes
wagon.lm.txt 291 bytes
wagon_highest.im 1.24MB
wagon_low.im 173.44KB
wagon_lowest.im 10.89KB
wagon_mid.im 908.66KB
• wagon.gs 49.97KB
wagon_alpha_numbers
alphanumber_0.texture.txt 63 bytes
alphanumber_0.tga 16.04KB
alphanumber_1.texture.txt 63 bytes
alphanumber_1.tga 16.04KB
alphanumber_2.texture.txt 63 bytes
alphanumber_2.tga 16.04KB
alphanumber_3.texture.txt 63 bytes
alphanumber_3.tga 16.04KB
alphanumber_4.texture.txt 63 bytes
alphanumber_4.tga 16.04KB
alphanumber_5.texture.txt 63 bytes
alphanumber_5.tga 16.04KB
alphanumber_6.texture.txt 63 bytes
alphanumber_6.tga 16.04KB
alphanumber_7.texture.txt 63 bytes
alphanumber_7.tga 16.04KB
alphanumber_8.texture.txt 63 bytes
alphanumber_8.tga 16.04KB
alphanumber_9.texture.txt 63 bytes
alphanumber_9.tga 16.04KB