OSN / NOS / ENOS Open Wagon

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Class OSN / NOS / ENOS
Vehicle type Bogie open wagon
First introduced 1964
To Port Lincoln 1964
Ex Port Lincoln 1989
Load capacity 26 tons (1976: 32 tons)
Number on Eyre Peninsula 20
Vehicle numbers OSN1-20
NOS1-20
ENOS1-20

New steel bodies on underframes from SN sheep vans (ex SN8186, 8188, 8184, 8201, 8191, 8179, 8207, 8183, 8198, 8203, 8176, 8202, 8182, 8158, 8177, 8189, 8200, 8178, 8157 and 8197 respectively). Fitted with roller bearing bogies ex OMN wagons 1970, auto couplers ex ON wagons 1973-74. Heavier bogie springs fitted, capacity increased to 32 tons Mar-Apr 1976. Renumbered NOS1-20 1984. Renumbered ENOS1-20 Jan 1985. All condemned by 1989.

OSN113 at Ungarra, September 1974. Photo: Alex Grunbach