Oil Tanks
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Oil Tank 70 was built at Newport in 1926
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Bogie tanks got class letters, TW, TWF etc but 2 axle oil tanks never got a letter class, they were simply refered to as "oil tanks" | |||||||||||||||
ABOVE: OT 1 circa 1963. Built at Newport Nov 1902, autocoupled 1934, scrapped April 1971. (photo courtesy Phil Jeffries)
ABOVE: OT 17 at Port Melbourne Feb. 1978
ABOVE: OT 18 at Port Melbourne Feb. 1978
ABOVE: OT 19 photo courtesy Phil Jefferey
BELOW: OT 19 at Port Melbourne Feb. 1978
ABOVE: OT 26 at Port Melbourne Feb. 1978
ABOVE: Oil Tank 27 was built at Newport in 1925 for the Commonwealth Oil Refinery, photo date 1977.
ABOVE: OT 28 at Port Melbourne Feb. 1978
ABOVE: Oil Tank 29 at Port Melbourne, 1978. Photo courtesy Geoff Winkler
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ABOVE: Oil Tank 30 was built at Newport in 1926 for the Commonwealth Oil Refinery, photo date 1977.
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ABOVE: OT 31 at Port Melbourne Feb. 1978
ABOVE: OT 32 at Port Melbourne Feb. 1978
ABOVE: OT 33 at Port Melbourne Feb. 1978
ABOVE: OT 34 photo courtesy Phil Jefferey
ABOVE: OT 51 circa 1954. Built new Jan 1927 (PROV photo)
ABOVE: OT 52 circa 1955. Built new at Newport Jan 1927.
BELOW: circa 1960s (Phil Jefferey photo)
ABOVE: Oil Tank 53 was built at Newport in 1927, photo date Aug 1980. Photo courtesy Peter J. Vincent
ABOVE: Oil Tank 73 was built at Newport in 1927, Feb 1978
ABOVE: OT 77 at Port Melbourne 1978
ABOVE: Oil Tank 8 built at Newport workshops May 1919, photo date circa 1919. For most of its life this wagon was employed delivering transformer oil to suburban sub-stations. The photo BELOW shows the same wagon 60 years later after having been retired from service and awaiting preservation at Newport workshops.
ABOVE: (photo courtesy Brian McClure) Oil Tank 210 circa early 1950s. As a temporary measure this E wagon was eqipped with steam loco tenders, most likely to haul oil used in oil burning steam locos. This wagon started life as E 119 in 1928. In 1949 it was shorn of its sides and ends and fitted with the two tenders shown in the photo. In 1953 it was converted back to a regular E wagon. Interstingly, the next year, 1954, it was converted into a proper tank wagon and ended up as TW 356, shown BELOW in 1958. If you look carefully at the photo above you can see two brackets on the underframe holding the stirrup step mounted below the ladder, on the photo below the two mounting brackets can clearly be seen on the underframe underneath the letters E and L.
A plan of this wagon can be seen HERE. (plan courtesy Phil Dunn)
ABOVE: OT 482 circa 1958 (built new Nov 1957) it was placed into oil service July 1958. A photo of 482 oil tank stencilled sodium sulphite appears in the August 1958 VR newsletter
ABOVE: OT 505 photo courtesy Phil Jefferey
ABOVE: OT 507, circa 1978
photo courtesy Peter J Vincent
ABOVE: OT 508 at Tottenham, Aug 25 1978.
ABOVE: OT 509 at Tottenham, Aug 25 1978.
ABOVE: OT 510 photo courtesy Phil Jefferey
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After the main group of 2 axle tanks were built there were more 2 axle tanks built whose numbers were interspersed in the bogie number group. OT 512 was built circa 1959 and was in departmental fuel service when this photo was taken in 1982
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ABOVE: OT 513 circa 1977
photo courtesy Peter J Vincent
ABOVE: Oil Tank 512 was built 1959 presumably on an IZ underframe. Photo at Ballarat East 1978
Above and Below, OT 66, 1978.
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