Rail Recovery Vehicle EZWL2

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Class EZWL
Vehicle type Bogie rail recovery vehicle
First introduced 1959
To Port Lincoln 1989-94
Ex Port Lincoln  
Load capacity  
Number on Eyre Peninsula 1
Vehicle number EZWL2

Built on underframe ex broad gauge horse box BH4331 (built 1922). Issued 1959 as b.g. winch wagon 4331. Bogie exchangeable (s.g./b.g.) c.1970. Renumbered AZWL2 9 Oct or 3 Nov 1984 (conflicting records). To Port Lincoln 27 Aug 1992 as EZWL2.

EZWL2 and the rail recovery train (eight ENFR flats and ENFB1) at Kimba, September 1999. Photo: Peter Knife

Diagonally opposite view of EZWL2, also at Kimba. Photo: Gerald Petrie