WAGR C class

WAGR C class

Cs 270 Black Butt on the Banksiadale mill railway, ca. 1960.

Cs 270 Black Butt on the Banksiadale mill railway, ca. 1960.
Type and origin
Power type Steam
Specifications
Configuration 4-6-0 and 4–6–2
Gauge 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm)
Career
Operator(s) Western Australian Government Railways
Number in class 22
Disposition All scrapped

The WAGR C class was a class of light axle load steam locomotives used by the Western Australian Government Railways (WAGR) between 1902 and 1961. A total of 22 of them were built in two batches.[1]

The first batch, of 12 engines, was built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1902. This batch was originally of a 4-6-0 wheel arrangement, and was a lighter version of the WAGR Ec class, which had been built by Baldwin in 1901. The engines in the first batch were later fitted with a larger, improved, boiler, and converted to a 4-6-2 configuration. The second batch, of 10 engines, was built by the WAGR's Midland Railway Workshops in 1915, to the modified 4-6-2 design.[2]

Seventeen members of the class were later fitted with a superheater and reclassified as the Cs class. The last four remaining members of the C class, all of them by then designated as Cs class units, ceased to be operated by the WAGR in 1961, when they were sold to Hawker Siddeley Building Supplies. All four were withdrawn from service in 1964 and scrapped.[1]

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References

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gunsburg 1984, p. 75.
  2. ↑ Gunsburg 1984, pp. 72–73.

Cited works

  • Gunzburg, Adrian (1984). A History of WAGR Steam Locomotives. Perth: Australian Railway Historical Society (Western Australian Division). ISBN 0959969039.

External links

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