page_title: Victorian Railways Z type carriage
section_title: V/Line fleet
hierarchical_section_title: Victorian Railways Z type carriage / In Service / Current Status / V/Line fleet
caption_attribution_description: English: PZ260 on #8605 Down Albury Pass At Sims Street Junction
context_page_description: The Z type carriages are an air conditioned steel passenger carriage used on the railways of Victoria, Australia. The carriages were constructed by the Victorian Railways from 1957 for use on intrastate services.
  Two major types of carriage were constructed - thirteen AZ first class cars with closely spaced but smaller windows, and twelve BZ second class cars with wider spaced but larger windows. Carriages were provided with a saloon layout, with 2+2 reversible seating provided, with each row lining up with the windows. First class was provided with more legroom than second. An internal partition existed between the two ends of the saloon, but was removed in later years. A single twinette sleeping car was also built in a Z type body shell, entering service in 1963; it had 20 berths.
  A number of carriages were placed onto standard gauge bogies from 1962 for use on interstate trains such as the Spirit of Progress. With the end of these trains in the 1980s they were placed back onto the broad gauge. During this time a number of AZ type carriages were provided with conductors work stations / compartments and recoded to ACZ at this time.
context_section_description: As at September 2015, 22 remained in service with V/Line. Of those, nine were out of service awaiting new bogie frames. Another four had been restored to service by mid December 2016.
  In service, V/Line Passenger: BTN 251, 253, 259, 263; BZN 252, 256, 261, 265, 267, 271-276, BCZ 257, PZ 260
  Under repair, V/Line Passenger: BTN 254, 264 & 268; BZN 258, 262 & 266
  The allocation as at early 2018 is, or will be:
caption: PZ260
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