Before you can really understand QR locos one needs a little background on the classification.
Useful guide from the @RailMuseum_Qld
theworkshops.qm.qld.gov.au/~/media/Docume…
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Railway locomotive and rollingstock drawings
Brief guide 41 | Queensland State Archives
publications.qld.gov.au/dataset/83f180…
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Queensland Railways 4D10 class locomotive was a class of 2-4-2T steam locomotives operated by the Queensland Railways.
4= 4 coupled (driving wheels) D= tank 10 = cylinder size inches
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#4-6 built North Ipswich Railway workshops
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B13 6 driving wheels with 13 inch diameter cylinders
4-6-0
Locomotive B13 class, no. 233 - c. 1900 hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/10… - #slqdigital @slqld
Dübs & Co (72)
Kitson & Co (25)
Phoenix Engine Company (15)
Build date1883-1895
Total produced112
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B13 c. 1900
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c. 1890
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B13 185 on tram at Beaudesert, Queensland, 1944
J.L. Buckland
nla.gov.au/nla.obj-155044…
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hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/38… - #slqdigital @slqld
Note 'Foden' 4-2-0T locomotive in background.
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The locomotive was built by Kitson of Leeds for Charleville Railway in 1885. Acquired by QGR in 1888 and numbered 102, B13. It was written off in December 1938.
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B13 48 in a storage shed at the Ipswich Railway Workshops Museum 8 October 2004.
48 was sold to Bingera Mill in 1944 but donated back to QGR in 1969.
australiansteam.com/qgrframe.htm
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