The Queensland Railways B13 class locomotive was a class of
4-6-0
A 4-6-0 steam locomotive, under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, has four leading wheels on two axles in a leading bogie and six powered and coupled driving wheels on three axles with the abse ...
steam locomotive
A steam locomotive is a locomotive that provides the force to move itself and other vehicles by means of the expansion of steam. It is fuelled by burning combustible material (usually coal, oil or, rarely, wood) to heat water in the locomot ...
s operated by the
Queensland Railways.
History
In June 1883 the first batch of 19 were delivered by
Dübs & Co for use on the then isolated section of the
Queensland Railways network including the Great Northern, Central, Southern & Western and Maryborough lines. Originally classified as the F class, per Queensland Railway's
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they were redesignated the B13 class in 1890, B representing they had three
driving axles
On a steam locomotive, a driving wheel is a powered wheel which is driven by the locomotive's pistons (or turbine, in the case of a steam turbine locomotive). On a conventional, non-articulated locomotive, the driving wheels are all coupled tog ...
, and the 13 the
cylinder
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diameter in inches.
Further orders were placed with Dübs & Co (52)
Kitson & Co (25) and Phoenix Engine Company (15), bringing the total to 112 by 1895 by which time the isolated sections had been joined with the class operating throughout the state. In the early 1900s, most were rebuilt with higher pressure boilers and raised fireboxes.
Between 1913 and 1918, six were sold to the
Commonwealth Railways
The Commonwealth Railways were established in 1917 by the Government of Australia with the Commonwealth Railways Act to administer the Trans-Australia and Port Augusta to Darwin railways. It was absorbed into Australian National in 1975.
Op ...
, entering service on the
North Australia Railway as the Ng class.
[
The majority withdrawn from Queensland Railways service in the 1920s. No. 197 was sold to the ]Cairns-Mulgrave Tramway
The Cairns-Mulgrave Tramway was a private tram line from Cairns to the Mulgrave River in Queensland, Australia. It was built until 1897 to serve the Mulgrave Central Sugar Mill, built in 1895. The line, which led through difficult terrain includ ...
in 1908, only to be reacquired in 1911 when Queensland Railways took over the tramway. Two were sold to the Beaudesert Shire for use on the Beaudesert Shire Tramway
The Beaudesert Shire Tramway was a narrow gauge tramway which operated from Beaudesert to Lamington and Rathdowney in the Scenic Rim Region, Queensland, Australia, It was one of 15 light railways built and operated by Divisional Boards and Sh ...
, no. 52 in 1921 and 185 in 1939. Several others were sold to sugar mills. The last of the class was withdrawn in 1955. Two more continued to be used by Bingera Sugar Mill until 1969.[
]
Preservation
Three have been preserved:
*48 at the Workshops Rail Museum
The Workshops Rail Museum is a railway museum in Ipswich, Queensland, located within the former North Ipswich Railway Workshops.
The museum
Opening in September 2002 as part of the Queensland Museum Network, The Workshops Rail Museum tells the ...
(the former North Ipswich Railway Workshops)
*161 at Normanton railway station Normanton is the name of:
England
*Normanton, Derby
*South Normanton, Derbyshire
*Temple Normanton, Derbyshire
* Normanton, Leicestershire
* Normanton, Lincolnshire
*Normanton, Rutland
*Normanton, West Yorkshire
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Australian Steam
See also
* Queensland B13 Baldwin class locomotive
References
External links
{{QueenslandLocos
Dübs locomotives
Kitson locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1883
B13
4-6-0 locomotives