Narrow gauge Tank wagons, which were classified "R" and allocated road number 231 through 237 and 248 through 249. These vehicles appear to have been owned by various petroleum companies and where imported into the system initially with existing classifications. They probabily all got converted to "NTO".
A number of these vehicles appear to have been "JU" class tank wagons from Western Australia. Eleven JU class bogie old tank wgons were taken over by the Commonwealth. The first batch was in September 1943, which consisted of JU 214, 215, 216, 230, 231, 236 and 237. In March 1944 as second batch was taken over consisting of JU 217, 220, 225 and 232. By 1945 the eleven JU tanks had been considered surplus on account of still being fitted with WAGR type buffers. The rollignstock return of 1948 shows that all JU had been returned, but it seems that some may have actually been sold to Vacuum oil (Mobil) and a some later date passed to Shell.
Note: all the records for these vehicles are rather confusing so some of the dates as to when the entered into Commonwealth control may be wrong.
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| 214 | 215 | 216 | 217 | 220 | 225 | 230 | ||
| 231 | 232 | 233 | 234 | 235 | 236 | 237 | 248 | 249 |
Petroleum tank wagon obtained from Western Australia - ran under WAGR number
| 1943 | Obtained from WAGR[blc] |
Petroleum tank wagon obtained from Western Australia - ran under WAGR number
| 1943 | Obtained from WAGR[blc] |
| 1947 | Returned to Western Australia on account of Mobil.[blc] |
Petroleum tank wagon obtained from Western Australia - ran under WAGR number
| 1943 | Obtained from WAGR[blc] |
| 1947 | Returned to Western Australia on account of Mobil.[blc] |
Petroleum tank wagon obtained from Western Australia - ran under WAGR number
| 1944 | Obtained from WAGR[blc] |
| 1947 | Returned to Western Australia on account of Mobil.[blc] |
Petroleum tank wagon obtained from Western Australia - ran under WAGR number
| 1944 | Obtained from WAGR[blc] |
Petroleum tank wagon obtained from Western Australia - ran under WAGR number
| 1944 | Obtained from WAGR[blc] |
| 1947 | Returned to Western Australia on account of Mobil.[blc] |
Petroleum tank wagon obtained from Western Australia - ran under WAGR number
| 1943 | Obtained from WAGR[blc] |
| - | Transferred to ownership of Shell[blc] |
Petroleum tank wagon obtained from Western Australia - ran under WAGR number.
| 1943 | Obtained from WAGR[blc] |
| - | Entered service on North Australia Railway - property of Shell who referred to it as "R 231" - at some stage the railways recoded it "NTO 231" but shell still internaly refered to it as "R 231"[blc] |
| 1965 | Transferred to ownership of Shell (had been owned by Mobil)[blc] |
| 31.3.1971 | Withdrawn from service on North Australia Railway[blc] |
| 3.1976 | To Central Australia Railway[blc] |
| 5.1981 | On Central Australia Railway |
Petroleum tank wagon obtained from Western Australia - ran under WAGR number.
| 1943 | Obtained from WAGR[blc] |
| 1947 | Returned to Western Australia on account of Mobil.[blc] |
| - | Entered service on North Australia Railway[blc] |
| 1965 | Transferred to ownership of Shell (had been owned by Mobil) who referred to it as "R 232" - at some stage the railways recoded it "NTO 232" but shell still internaly refered to it as "R 232"[blc] |
| 30.9.1971 | Withdrawn from service on North Australia Railway[blc] |
| 3.1976 | To Central Australia Railway at request of Shell [blc] |
| 5.1981 | On Central Australia Railway |
Petroleum tank wagon - property of Shell
| - | Entered service on North Australia Railway[blc] |
| 1965 | Transferred to ownership of Shell (had been owned by Mobil) who referred to it as "R 233" - at some stage the railways recoded it "NTO 233" but shell still internaly refered to it as "R 233"[blc] |
| 30.9.1971 | Withdrawn from service on North Australia Railway[blc] |
| 3.1976 | To Central Australia Railway at request of Shell [blc] |
| 5.1981 | On Central Australia Railway |
Petroleum tank wagon - property of Shell
| - | Entered service on North Australia Railway[blc] |
| 1965 | Transferred to ownership of Shell (had been owned by Mobil) who referred to it as "R 234" - at some stage the railways recoded it "NTO 234" but shell still internaly refered to it as "R 234"[blc] |
| 31.3.1971 | Withdrawn from service on North Australia Railway[blc] |
| 3.1976 | To Central Australia Railway[blc] |
| 5.1981 | On Central Australia Railway |
Petroleum tank wagon - property of Shell
| - | Entered service on North Australia Railway[blc] |
| 30.9.1971 | Withdrawn from service on North Australia Railway[blc] |
| - | To narrow gauge "NTO 1769" tank wagon - used on North Australia Railway |
| 2.1972 | Tank removed - recoded "NR" flat[blc] |
| 2.1975 | Incorrectly stencilled as "NR 1679"[blc] |
| 1977 | To Central Australia Railway |
| 1977 | Written off Central Australia Railway |
| 12.1978 | On Central Australia Railway coded as "NR 1679". |
Petroleum tank wagon obtained from Western Australia - ran under WAGR number.
| 1943 | Obtained from WAGR[blc] |
| 1965 | Transferred to ownership of Shell (had been owned by Mobil) who referred to it as "R 236" - at some stage the railways recoded it "NTO 236" but shell still internaly refered to it as "R 236"[blc] |
| 2.1971 | On hire to Caltex ex Shell |
| 2.1978 | To Central Australia Railway[blc] |
| 3.1988 | Stored Pt Augusta |
Petroleum tank wagon obtained from Western Australia - ran under WAGR number.
| 1943 | Obtained from WAGR[blc] |
| - | Entered service on North Australia Railway[blc] |
| - | Transferred to ownership of Shell who referred to it as "R 237" - at some stage the railways recoded it "NTO 237" but shell still internaly refered to it as "R 237"[blc] |
| 20.6.1978 | Transferred to Alice Springs ex Darwin[blc] |
| 6.1987 | Written off |
Petroleum tank wagon
| 1972 | Converted from "R 248" tank (not sure what these actually were) to narrow gauge "NTO 1768" tank wagon - used on North Australia Railway |
| - | Fitted with 22,730 litre tank |
| 1977 | Transferred from North Australia Railway to Central Australia Railway. |
| 20.2.1978 | On hire to "BP"[blc] |
| 6.1987 | Written off |
Petroleum tank wagon
| - | Sent to Central Australia Railway |
| - | May have been the tank that was used on "NTOE 1490"[blc] |
