GCF Sleeper Transport

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Class GCF
Vehicle type 4-wheel sleeper transport
First introduced 1969
To Port Lincoln 1969
Ex Port Lincoln 1981
Load capacity  
Number on Eyre Peninsula 11
Vehicle numbers GCF7076-7078, 7082-7083, 7099-7104

Cut down from CFN cattle wagons. Intended for carrying sleepers for track renewal, but also used for traffic such as conveying hay. GCF7083 and 7100 to shunters' runners c.1975, others condemned 2 Apr 1981.

GCF7104 and GCF7078 at Port Lincoln, June 1975. Photo: Jeff Moonie