GML10 is a

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built by

Clyde Engineering Clyde Engineering was an Australian manufacturer of locomotives, rolling stock, and other industrial products. It was founded in September 1898 by a syndicate of Sydney businessmen buying the Granville factory of timber merchants Huds ...

, Kelso for the Goldsworthy Mining Company in 1990. It is currently operated by

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History

GML10's design is a hybrid of two earlier classes of Clyde-built locomotives, its frame and bodywork are essentially copied from the N class built for

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between 1985 and 1987, while its traction equipment and mechanical configuration is much closer to that employed on Australian National's DL class. Construction commenced almost immediately after the final DL class unit had been delivered, and in April 1990, the new locomotive undertook a trial run of approximately 82 kilometres to Lithgow. It was subsequently worked to

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in May 1990 at the head of a normal freight service, before being moved by road to the Goldsworthy railway.Around Australia with R1004 and friends ''Railway Digest'' April 2011 page 26 Goldsworthy were acquired by

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in late 1990, and during the amalgamation with BHP's other railway operations GML10 was renumbered to GML20 to avoid having two locomotives both using number 10. In 1994 BHP listed the locomotive for sale, having elected to standardise on an all

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fleet. It was purchased by

Comalco Rio Tinto Aluminium (previously known as Comalco) is now known as Rio Tinto Alcan after Rio's takeover of Alcan. It was the world's eighth largest aluminium company. It mines and manufactures bauxite, alumina and primary aluminium. Rio Tinto ...

in August of that year and renumber R1004, for use on its

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railway at

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. In 2009, R1004 was sold to Australian Locolease who resold it to

. In late 2010, it was shipped to

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before being taken to Chicago Freight Car Leasing Australia's

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for overhaul in March 2011.Australian Locolease News ''Motive Power'' issue 74 March 2011 page 6 It returned to service in August 2011 as GML10 operating Qube services in

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and

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. Though Clyde never built another GML class locomotive, the design did become the basis of

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's 82 class and

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's S class, both of which were also designated as JT42Cs. GML10 itself would be replaced by two JT42Cs in 2009. In 2021, GML10 was transferred to Western Australia to work

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's Forrestfield to

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intermodal container service.

Liveries

GML10 was outshopped in a version of the

orange and grey colour scheme, albeit without logos. After Goldsworthy's acquisition by BHP, it was repainted into BHP blue and white. After being sold to Comalco, it was repainted in their yellow and red colour scheme. Since 2011, it has worn Qube's silver and yellow.

References

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