The Queensland Railways Double Boilered Cross Locomotives class locomotive was a locomotive class of

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s built for, but never operated by, the Queensland Railways.

History

In 1867, James Cross and Company of St Helens, England, delivered three

double boilered locomotives as knocked down kits to the Queensland Railways' North Ipswich Railway Workshops. One was assembled coming in six tons overweight. After operating two trials on the

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to Toowoomba, where it spread the rails and ultimately derailed, Queensland Railways refused to accept them. After four years in storage, they were repatriated to England and converted to . Two were sold to the Central Argentine Railway for use at

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, while the third was sold to the Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway, Wales and named ''Victoria''.

References

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