Class IM coal box wagons

This class consisted of 75 wagons converted from the standard, N.Z.R. type, single bolster wagon in 1920-2. Unlike the longer M class wagons they could only carry two wooden coal boxes. From the mid twenties they began to be replaced by other types and had gone by 1936.

 

 

 

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1920

585, 587, 593, 596, 598, 610, 628, 644, 674, 701, 703, 706, 707, 720, 722, 761, 766, 769, 775, 784, 794 from I

1921

589, 591, 595, 600, 606, 613, 615, 620, 623, 625, 627, 632, 635, 640, 645, 646, 648, 653, 654, 655, 657, 665, 668, 672, 699, 715, 721, 723, 725, 726, 730, 731, 733, 734, 740, 742, 746, 749, 751, 755, 759, 762, 765, 767, 768, 770, 776, 782, 783, 786, 787, 789, 792 from I

1922

597 from I

1926

591, 595, 606, 615, 625, 635, 640, 645, 648, 653, 654, 665, 703, 723, 731, 765, 766, 787, 792, 794 replaced by GC

1928

628 replaced by GC

1929

746 to I

593, 600, 722, 786 to JETTY 357, 359, 361, 360 respectively

589, 769 replaced by M

627, 657, 783, 789 replaced by MA

587, 623, 646, 730, 734 written off

1931

610, 699, 715, 721, 751 to I

1934

742, 767 to I

1935

585, 596, 598, 613, 620, 632, 644, 655, 668, 672, 674, 701, 706, 707, 720, 725, 726, 733, 740, 749, 755, 759, 761, 762, 768, 775, 776, 782, 784 written off.

 770 to JETTY 298

At least two of the IM converted to JETTY wagons (ex 593 and 770) were reconverted to class I in the 1942 - 1944 period. 

 

 

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