Queensland Double Boilered Cross locomotive
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The Queensland Railways Double Boilered Cross Locomotives class locomotive was a locomotive class of T steam locomotives built for, but never operated by, the Queensland Railways.
History
In 1867,
T double boilered locomotives as knocked down kits to the Queensland Railways' North Ipswich Railway Workshops.[1]
One was assembled coming in six tons overweight. After operating two trials on the
1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in). Two were sold to the Central Argentine Railway for use at Montevideo, while the third was sold to the Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway in Wales and named Victoria.[1]
References
- ^ ISBN 0 909937 13 3.