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#VRlocomotives
2-6-2 tank 2' 6" gauge NA class
1A & 2A built 1898 Baldwin USA
3 to 17 Newport 1900 - 1915
2A and 4A were compound.
8 remained on register in 1954
NA CLASS STEAM LOCOMOTIVE No.1, 2 6 2T SIMPLE 1902 - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…

Steam locomotive No.16a, Ferntree Gully, 1925.
Source: Museums Victoria
collections.museumvictoria.com.au/items/796054

NA CLASS STEAM LOCOMOTIVE No.2A PERSPECTIVE VIEW - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…
Note compound.

Between Moe and Walhalla in Victoria. One of four such lines built in Victoria. The steam locomotive is a 2-6-2 NA class of the same type now operating on the Puffing Billy Railway at Gembrook. This is locomotive No. 1A built in 1898 and scrapped in 1929.
collections.museumvictoria.com.au/items/788342

NA-class narrow gauge (2-ft 6-in) steam locomotive engine hauling a passenger excursion train in a semi-urural setting near Upper Ferntree Gully on the Ferntree Gully to Gembrook Railway. 1930s
collections.museumvictoria.com.au/items/802616
Stove chimney = 8A

Victorian Railways, 2'6'' gauge NA-class 2-6-2T locomotive no. 15A working down Saturday mixed train up the last 1 in 30 grade from Cockatoo towards Gembrook, near the site of Fielder in 1934
nla.gov.au/nla.obj-155039…

NA CLASS STEAM LOCOMOTIVE No.14 TAKING ON WATER AT THE 10 MILE TANK ON BEECH FOREST/CROWES LINE DRIVER W BRADY FIREMAN L OGDEN - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…

New 2A locomotive and narrow gauge train Wangaratta - Whitfield line, Vic.
search.sl.nsw.gov.au/permalink/f/1c…
Probably the first train c. 1899.

Walhalla railway terminal, not long after line was completed in 1910
NAA recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetriev…

7A Upper Ferntree Gully
P G Dow this was prior to the closure of the line.

BEECH FOREST STATION SURROUNDING GROUND 1901-1902 - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…

BEECH FOREST STATION WITH NARROW GAUGE NA CLASS LOCOMOTIVE - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…
Probably 1930s

COLAC TO BEECH FOREST 3A CLASS STEAM LOCOMOTIVE 1901-1902 - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…

Puffing Billy Tourist Train Engine, Dandenong Ranges, Victoria, 1957
Photographer: Jim Payens
Source: Museums Victoria
collections.museumvictoria.com.au/items/2093682

PUFFING BILLY TESTING AUTOMATIC SIGNALS BETWEEN UPPER FERNTREE GULLY AND TECOMA 1920S - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…

Railway Station, Selby, Vic. viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entity=IE8759… via Library_Vic
3A c. 1920s

Steam locomotive 2' 6 gauge. viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entity=IE1339… via Library_Vic
14A looks like old Belgrave

The NA class lives on of course. Having a spell at the moment from Puffing Billy duties due to temporary closure.
But they will return.
Details of the current NA fleet.
puffingbilly.com.au/about/rolling-…

More on the NA
railbotforum.org/yourls/8
NA 2 at Wangaratta, date unknown.

To conclude, something very special.
7A on the Walhalla line 29/5/10
youtube.com/watch?v=uG0_Zn…

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