i have got many VR plans from here, it the National Library of Australia and they have scans of the origanal VR plans on here. go to http://www.pictureaustralia.org/apps/pictureaustralia

and the type in DRAWING OF _ CLASS STEAM LOCOMOTIVE and fill the _ with what ever type of class there is D3, A, K, RY???

Enjoy and hope this helps

Thanks for finding the drawing plans Darcy.
Defenantly is more helpful.

cheers,

Those are useful general arrangement drawings, but aren't overly accurate as far as smaller detail goes.

They're a start though.

Cheers,
Matt

I guess though if you want the plans badly you could get them dragged out of the archives and get photo copies of the real thing

That's true, but the drawings themselves are not really detailed enough for model building. They give some dimensional figures, but they are not drawn to scale. For example, the boiler sizes, cab sizes and tender sizes as drawn don't match up with the figures.

They were never meant as plans, they were just layout drawings.

Better than nothing though.

Cheers,
Matt

I find the most useful purpose of these diagrams are in setting up steam loco physics, just about everything needed is on each diagram

I agree Jolly Green.
Many a time I have used those plans only to realize Whoops that's right out.
They can be good for a general shape then you have to get better measurements and tweak the shape later.
As Chrome Bullet has pointed out to me Photos dont lie.
Get lots of Photos and use a wheel for example that has a known Diameter as a scale reference for tweaking later.