CFX/NQFX 3TEU Container Wagon with Bulkheads

A pair of NQFX’s loaded with power poles. Casula Hobbies Collection

The CFX/NQFX was a fully decked 60ft container with a bulkhead at each end allowing the wagon to be used for certain non-container loadings. The wagon also had pockets for seven stanchions each side. All the wagons have been converted to NQFF and the code is now extinct. They appear to have been part of a program to produce a standard NSW 60ft wagon, sharing the same underframe as the CDY/NOCY and the NQAY.

Builders:

- 160 CFX wagons were built by Electric Power transmission in 1975-76. They wagons were numbered 21491 to 21650.

Length: 19.61 m Tare: 23 t Capacity: 53 t Gross: 76 t

Bogies: XCL

Coding:

- Introduced as CFX, recoded NQFX in the ROA recoding of 1980. These wagons were never transferred to NRC.

Colour Scheme:

- Believed to have been introduced in the PTC blue scheme

- Some were also painted in SRA red livery.

Further Modifications:

- The 158 surviving wagons were converted to NQFF in 1998. The NQFF conversion was not a simple bogie change but involved the removal of the bulkheads, removal of much of the deck leaving a skeletal deck, alteration of the underframe and the fitting of twistlocks.

Operation:

- In its early days the CFX was used on interstate, particularly into Victoria, as well as intrastate services however in its later years the NQFX tended to be used only on intrastate services such as the ‘Speedfreights’, because it was not permitted to run at superfreighter speeds.

Modelling:

- Available as a styrene kit from AR Kits

NQFX Bulkhead. Casula Hobbies Collection

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NQFX at Leeton in 1997. Casula Hobbies Collection