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Merredin Railway Museum > Records

SUPER PLUME FUEL TANKER

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Historical information

JBB Fuel Tankeris a 5000 gallon 3 compartment oil tank wagon built by Perry Engineering of South Australia& purchased by the vaccum oil company for use in West AUST. .It cost 863 pounds & entered service in Nov . 9 1929 .During its life it carried the Plume range of petrol products & worked within the Westrail network It maybe the only restored rail fuel tankerin W.A It is combined to an 1897 G.Class Locomotive G117, single flat top wagons ,single bulk wheat wagons & a guards van along the 1893 railway line

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Registration number

cwa-org-156-1996.768

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Inscriptions and markings

Wagon No 103 WAGR

Public Location

on rail wagon flat top 1

Merredin Railway Museum

Merredin Railway Museum

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