This is a list of locomotives including notable

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that are preserved in museums or in heritage railways. For a list of locomotive types or models, please see

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vehicle that provides the

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; the use of these self-propelled vehicles is increasingly common for passenger trains, but rare for

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(see CargoSprinter). Following is a mix of individual locomotives and of locomotive classes or models, organized by company. For a list of preserved locomotives, such as those in museums, see List of preserved locomotives in the United States and

List of preserved locomotives in Canada Preserved locomotives in Canada are numerous. Locomotives Locomotives whose coordinates are included below may be seen together in a linked map: click on "Map all coordinates using OpenSourceMap" at the right side of this page. Notable preser ...

Significant individual locomotives

New South Wales Government Locomotive No

;of Australia * Locomotive No. 1 (1854), oldest surviving locomotive from

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Powerhouse Museum The Powerhouse Museum is the major branch of the Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences (MAAS) in Sydney, the others being the historic Sydney Observatory at Observatory Hill, and the newer Museums Discovery Centre at Castle Hill. Although often de ...

(first locomotive of the NSW Government Railways). * QR A10 Neilson class 6 (1865), oldest surviving locomotive & oldest operating steam locomotive from

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at Workshops Rail Museum. * Ballaarat steam engine (1871), oldest surviving locomotive from

Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...

Busselton, Western Australia Busselton is a city in the South West region of the state of Western Australia approximately south-west of Perth. Busselton has a long history as a popular holiday destination for Western Australians; however, the closure of the Busselto ...

. * CR NF class 5 (1877), oldest surviving locomotive & oldest operating steam locomotive from Commonwealth Railways,

Northern Territory The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory shares its borders with Western Aust ...

Pine Creek railway station Pine Creek railway station is a disused railway station and museum on the former North Australia Railway in Pine Creek in the Northern Territory of Australia. The station is located from the original Darwin station, and was the southern termin ...

. * SAR V class 9 (1877), oldest surviving locomotive from

South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories ...

Naracoorte, South Australia Naracoorte is a town in the Limestone Coast region of South Australia, approximately 336 kilometres south-east of Adelaide and 100 kilometres north of Mount Gambier on the Riddoch Highway (A66). History Before the colonisation of South Australi ...

. * VR F class 176 (1879), oldest surviving locomotive from

Victoria Victoria most commonly refers to: * Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia * Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada * Victoria (mythology), Roman goddess of Victory * Victoria, Seychelle ...

Newport Railway Museum The Newport Railway Museum is located on Champion Road, Newport, Victoria, near the North Williamstown station. History The museum opened on 10 November 1962, after the Australian Railway Historical Society (ARHS) Victorian Division was alloca ...

. * NSWGR x10 class 1076 (1885), oldest operating steam locomotive from

at Goulburn Rail Heritage Centre * TGR C class 1 (1885), oldest surviving locomotive from

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at West Coast Heritage Centre. * WAGR A class 15 (1886), oldest operating steam locomotive from

privately owned in Victoria. * Decauville 861 (1886), oldest operating steam locomotive from

Puffing Billy Railway The Puffing Billy Railway is a narrow gauge heritage railway in the southern foothills of the Dandenong Ranges in Melbourne, Australia. The railway was one of the five narrow gauge lines of the Victorian Railways which opened around the beg ...

. * Fowler 5265 (1886), oldest operating steam locomotive from

Tasmania ) , nickname = , image_map = Tasmania in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Tasmania in AustraliaCoordinates: , subdivision_type = Country , subdi ...

Don River Railway The Don River Railway is a volunteer-run vintage railway and museum in Don, a suburb of Devonport, Tasmania. It runs a passenger train ride from Don to Coles Beach (operationally known as Don Junction) and return. The current line follows a re ...

. * SAR Yx class 141 (1892), oldest operating steam locomotive from

Pichi Richi Railway The Pichi Richi Railway is a narrow-gauge heritage railway in the southern Flinders Ranges of South Australia between Quorn and Port Augusta. For much of its length the line lies in the picturesque Pichi Richi Pass, where the line was complete ...

. * VR H class H220 (1941), largest locomotive built in Australia and the largest non-articulated steam locomotive to run on Australian railways * NSWGR C38 class

3801 3801 (pronounced Thirty-eight o-one) is a 4-6-2 steam locomotive operated by the New South Wales Government Railways between 1943 and 1974. It is arguably Australia's most famous steam locomotive, being the only one to have visited all mainl ...

(1943), Australia's most famous locomotive * SAR 520 class 520 & 523, (1943/1944) locomotive that a character named Shane, in The Great Race, was based on GWR_3440_City_of_Truro_-_geograph

;of the United Kingdom *

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(1812), first commercially successful steam locomotive, first to have two cylinders. * Puffing Billy (1813-14), oldest surviving locomotive. * GWR 3700 Class 3440 ''City of Truro'', a GWR 3700 Class 4-4-0 steam locomotive built in 1903 for the Great Western Railway (GWR) at

Swindon Works Swindon railway works was opened by the Great Western Railway in 1843 in Swindon, Wiltshire, England. It served as the principal west England maintenance centre until closed in 1986. History In 1835 Parliament approved the construction of the ...

to a design by

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. Some believe the locomotive to be the first to attain a speed of during a run from Plymouth to London Paddington in 1904. * Flying Scotsman (1923), oldest operating steam locomotive. ;of the United States * DeWitt Clinton (1831), influential in demonstrating cost-effectiveness and speed of railways, defeating canals. * The General (1855) of the

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through Georgia in the American Civil War.

Biggest locomotives

Preserved locomotives

Hillcrest Lumber Company steam locomotive 9 Climax at Forest Museum Duncan BC 16-Jul-1995

These are historic locomotives preserved in museums, currently or formerly, or in heritage railways, currently or formerly, or otherwise. This is not intended to include deteriorating locomotives that are just still existing somewhere, without being restored or ever open to the public.

in Canada

There are numerous preserved locomotives in Canada.

in China

Yunnan Railway Museum - rolling stock - P1340757

China has at least six preserved locomotives: *Three in the China Railways SN class: ** China Railways SN No.23, , in the China Railway Museum ** China Railways SN No.26, , in the Shanghai Railway Museum, ** China Railways SN No.29, , in the Yunnan Railway Museum. *At least three more locomotives at the Yunnan Railway Museum :File:Yunnan Railway Museum - rolling stock - P1340649.JPG shows four locomotives.

in India

Kundan, the first WDM-2 locomotive assembled at DLW, Varanasi

India has 40 or more preserved locomotives. *

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(1855), formerly the oldest steam locomotive in regular service, located at National Rail Museum or at

Rewari Railway Heritage Museum The Rewari Railway Heritage Museum (formerly the Rewari Steam Locomotive Shed) is a c.1893 railway museum in Delhi NCR at Rewari city in Haryana, India. Built in 1893, it is the only surviving steam locomotive shed in India, and houses some of ...

or put on occasional heritage runs * ''Sir Leslie Wilson'' (1928), a WCG-1 electric locomotive which belonged to the

Great Indian Peninsular Railway The Great Indian Peninsula Railway ( reporting mark GIPR) was a predecessor of the Central Railway (and by extension, the current state-owned Indian Railways), whose headquarters was at the Boree Bunder in Mumbai (later, the Victoria Term ...

(presently Central Railway), a ''khaki'' which moaned. At National Rail Museum. * Sir Roger Lumley (1930), a WCP-1 electric locomotive, at National Rail Museum *Two more locomotives at National Rail Museum. *At least two locomotives at Chennai Rail Museum, Chennai *Three at Rail Museum, Howrah, Kolkata *Nine at Railway Museum, Mysore, Mysore *Ten others at

, National Capital Region *Eleven preserved WDM-2 locomotives at scattered other locations. Note that

DHR 778 DHR 778 (originally number 19) is a narrow-gauge steam locomotive, that was built in 1889 for the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway. It is preserved in the United Kingdom, and is the only DHR locomotive outside of India. The locomotive is notable ...

(1889), built in Glasgow, the only Darjeeling Himalayan Railway locomotive now located outside India, is now preserved in Oxfordshire, England.

in United Kingdom

With some overlap between sublists, preserved locomotives in the UK include: *More than 100 preserved British industrial steam locomotives, not including fireless ones *About 30 preserved fireless steam locomotives in Britain

Preserved locomotives of heritage railway in England

Steam locomotives 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 ...

and

diesel locomotives A diesel locomotive is a type of railway locomotive in which the prime mover is a diesel engine. Several types of diesel locomotives have been developed, differing mainly in the means by which mechanical power is conveyed to the driving wheels ...

of the Bluebell Railway *

, and

multiple units A multiple-unit train or simply multiple unit (MU) is a self-propelled train composed of one or more carriages joined together, which when coupled to another multiple unit can be controlled by a single driver, with multiple-unit train contro ...

of the Bodmin and Wenford Railway *

Great Central Railway locomotives This is a list of locomotives and rolling stock based at the preserved Great Central Railway at Loughborough, Leicestershire, the Great Central Railway (Nottingham) in Ruddington and the Mountsorrel Railway near Leicester. Mainline steam locomot ...

* Isle of Wight Steam Railway

in United States

There are numerous locomotives preserved in the United States.

Notes

References

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