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WOB type iron ore waggon WOB 31395 is one of a batch of twenty five built by Comeng WA between 1974 and 1975 and converted from Mt Newman high sided waggons by WAGR Midland Workshops with a capacity of 67 tons with fleet number 325 for Koolyanobbing iron ore operations. This waggon was also converted to a WSM type ballast hopper by re-fitting the cut down top section and having bottom discharge doors fitted, converted back to WOB in 1997, and later converted to a WSM type ballast hopper, then back to its current guise, and this is the first one to be repainted in ARG yellow, shows capacity of 32M³, loaded with lump ore, Binduli 30th May 2006.