LLW Depressed Centre Wagon

LLW 750 with a tractor load in Albury Yard. Rob O’Regan

As older depressed centre flat wagons became either under capacity or beyond economic repair, an upgraded design was needed. CME Casley commissioned design work on a 50t capacity vehicle able to travel at fast goods speed.

Builders: 3 wagons were built by Chullora Workshops in 1954 and were numbered 130, 590 and 750.

Length: 14.12m Tare: 24t Capacity: 50t Gross: 74t Equiv Length:

Bogies: 2CF

Coding:

- Originally coded LLW,

- Recoded NWLF after 1979.

Colour Scheme:

- Painted all over black with white lettering.

Similar Vehicles: LFW

Period of Service: 19xx – mid 1990’s.

Operation: Used as required to transport items which would be Out-of-Gauge on standard flat wagons.

Special Memtion: NWLF 130N was used to film a promotional TV advertisment in the Sydney underground railway for the ‘Phantom of the Opera’ stage production in 1996. The wagon still bears the ‘Phantom Mask’ logo.

Remaining Vehicles: LLW 130N is stored in Clyde Up Yard, LLW 750 is preserved at the RTM.

Modelling:

- Walthers have a similar wagon available in HO scale, but needs to be modified.

A LLW loaded with an X200 Rail Shunting Tractor in Broadmeadow Yd. This was a conveinent way to move X200 Tractors back and

forth between their allocated shunting yards and Sydney for workshop attention. Photo Brad Coulter Snr

NWLF 130N at Clyde Yard in April 1997. Norm Bray