YF63 number

Wagons - YF 63

YF63 number

YF63 Badge YF904 Badge Class/No: Yf 848 and Yf 904 Type:
TMS Type/No: YF 63 Purpose: Ballast Wagon
Year: 1964 Condition: Steel Body
Builder: State: Stored
Distributed Load: Tare: 7550 kg
Notes:
Wagon Text: B8 C-4-99, OHL 10-84


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This wagons is used to discharge ballast (rock) on track. There are two types of ballast wagon, one that discharges between the rails YC and one that discharges outside the rails YF.
YF wagons are four wheel wagons and had restricted speed, thus could not run on express trains. This means to move the wagons on the network they had to run on slow goods or special trains. Modern railways struggle to operate trains at slow speeds as they slow down the fast trains. Replacement bogie-type ballast trains are now used.

YF63 Side A In the yard - Side A
5 July 2008
YF63 Side B In the yard - Side B
14 June 2008
YF63 Inside Gravel shoots inside the wagon.
14 June 2008
YF63 badges ID Badges.
14 June 2008

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