NOA / ENOA Open Wagon

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Class NOA / ENOA
Vehicle type Bogie open wagon
First introduced 1943
To Port Lincoln 1982
Ex Port Lincoln 1988
Load capacity 30 tons
Number on Eyre Peninsula 31
Vehicle numbers NOA1-31
ENOA1-31

Built 1943-44 by Islington Workshops as SAR narrow gauge open wagons (GN10001-10060). Most to standard gauge (SGC class) 1966-67. Thirty-one SGCs reverted to narrow gauge, to Port Lincoln as NOA1-31 Feb 1982 to Jan 1983. Reclassified ENOA1-31 24 Jan 1985. All condemned by 1988.

One additional SGC later came to Port Lincoln – see EZOA29.

An NOA wagon at Port Lincoln in 1982. Photo: Denis Edlington

ENOA wagons in a salt train, Penong Junction, February 1986. Photo: Peter Knife