Introduction In the early 1980s when I was collecting wagon information I didn't pay much attention to the standard gauge fleet. It was mostly new and the Narrow Gauge stock was disappearing fast and had my priority for both time and film. Unlike the narrow gauge stock I didn't take photos of them or go through the record cards. It was still all fairly new and seemed as though there was no hurry. When I came to build my website I had almost no information on the Standard gauge wagons and no access to any of the records. Unbelievably, in 2014 the old W.A.G.R. record cards were rescued from oblivion and with access to scans of these pages it has been possible to finally attempt to do the W.A.G.R. standard gauge wagon stock some justice. In a sense the standard gauge stock has a more complex history than the narrow gauge wagons because of the reclassifications brought about by the partial adoption of the ROA system of classification from 1979. This makes it difficult to use the same layout as the narrow gauge pages as the change of ROA standards only applied to the wagons on interstate traffic and local codes were still used. From 1979 WAGR started to reclassify wagons used on interstate traffic under the ROA system. ROA lettering principles. 1st letter = State W =WA 2nd letter = B=van, E=conflat for refrigerated containers, F= non container flat, H=hopper, K=steel wagon, L=louvred van, M= motor car wagon, O = open, P = hopper (pneumatic discharge), Q=container flat, S=livestock wagon, T=tanker, V=brake van, W=well wagon, Z=departmental. 3rd letter = Sequence letter 4th letter = A=Less than normal speed, F=normal speeds no bogie exchange, H=max gross weight 84t L=restricted bogie exchange, P= passenger bogies 110kph, W=low level bogies, X=bogie exchange, Y =pass services but not bogie exchange. Hence for example WF to WFDY, WFX to WQCX, WVX to WBAX.

Anyway, here is the standard gauge equivalent of the narrow gauge Alphabet soup. As before Green links have no photos of that class.