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#VRlocomotives
R goods 0-6-0
Three early types:
1. Old R Class
2. Belgian R Class
3. New R Class
All 0-6-0 goods engines.
VR Power Parade 1954

Belgian R Class

New R Class

OLD STEAM LOCOMOTIVE OLD R CLASS - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…

R CLASS STEAM LOCOMOTIVE No.243 BELGIAN - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…

NEW R CLASS STEAM LOCOMOTIVE 0 6 0 1902 - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…

R/CLASS STEAM LOCOMOTIVE AT SALE 1866 - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…
Old R class #187
Date is wrong as Sale not opened till around c.1880

R CLASS STEAM LOCOMOTIVE No.189 - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…
Old R class

ARARAT RAIL STATION R CLASS STEAM LOCOMOTIVE 1894 - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…
Looks like a new R class. Seems a big day, possible first new R class to reach Ararat?

OLD R CLASS STEAM LOCOMOTIVE No.317 PERSPECTIVE VIEW POSSIBLE LOCATION NEWPORT POWERHOUSE - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…
This was the last of the old R class, #317.
Was scrapped in 1944 😢

Melbourne bound up goods train hauled by Victorian Railways New R-class 0-6-0 type goods steam locomotive No.459 departing the goods sidings at Warragul Railway Station c. 1910
Museums Victoria Collections collections.museumvictoria.com.au/items/795944
Rippa of a photograph !

R CLASS STEAM LOCOMOTIVE No.339 ARRIVING AT CROYDON STATION - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…

COMMISSIONERS TRAIN HAULED BY OLD R CLASS STEAM LOCOMOTIVE PRE 1904 - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…

R CLASS STEAM LOCOMOTIVE No.317 ON GOODS TRAIN WITH V CLASS STEAM LOCOMOTIVE No.507 SHUNTING AT TOORA, CIRCA 1908 - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…

R CLASS STEAM LOCOMOTIVE BUILT BY SOCIETE ANONYMEDE DE ST LEONARD BELGIUM 1883-1920 - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…
A Belgian R class ...

OLD R CLASS STEAM LOCO ON PASSENGER TRAIN 27-10 1903 OPENING OF MILDURA-YATPOOL SECTION - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…
What a grand day!!

R CLASS STEAM LOCOMOTIVE No.297 JANUARY 1894 PERSPECTIVE VIEW SHOWING RESULT OF BOILER EXPLOSION - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…

DERAILMENT AT ST JAMES AND TUNGAMAH R CLASS LOCOMOTIVE No.431, 14-7-1897 - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…
On Oaklands line.

COLLAPSE OF MCCALLUMS CREEK BRIDGE BETWEEN CLUNES AND TALBOT 1919, OLD R CLASS WITH MIXED TRAIN HANGING OFF THE BRIDGE. - Public Record Office Victoria

PHOENIX FOUNDRY PHOTO OF OLD R CLASS STEAM LOCOMOTIVE APPROXIMATE 1920 22 JULY 1974 - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…

OLD R CLASS STEAM LOCOMOTIVE No.335 HAULING MIXED TRAIN WITH WT WAGONS (WATER GINS) AT DERRINALLUM LATE 1800'S - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…

BUILDERS DRAWING NEW R CLASS STEAM LOCOMOTIVE AND TENDER - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…

DRAWING OF OLD R CLASS STEAM LOCOMOTIVE 0-6-0 c1884 - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…

DRAWING OF BELGIAN R CLASS STEAM LOCOMOTIVE 0-6-0 c1884 - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…

Old R-class steam locomotive No. 469, Kew Station.
museumsvictoria.com.au/railways/image…
Collection: PTC Collection
Collection Number:VPRS 12800/P1 Unit 294
Medium: Film negative
Source: Public Record Office Victoria

Belgian R Class locomotive.
Date location not known.
i.pinimg.com/originals/e0/4…

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