The BMF was a medium capacity boxvan converted in 1978 from BMX vans. This was the second group of vans coded BMF. The first group were vans in service between 1961 and 1963.
They were part of an overall strategy to reduce the number of bogie exchange vehicles in the interstate 'pool'. The BMF vans were fitted with Aligned bogies from _VF_ vans being withdrawn from service at the time.
The BMF class were recoded in the 1979 recoding to VBAY.
The BMF numbers were:
3, 7 - 9, 11, 18, 19, 24 - 26,
28 - 30, 35, 38, 40, 43, 44, 48, 49
52, 53, 57, 58, 60, 61, 63, 66, 67
69, 72, 73, 75, 76, 102
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