Thread by @ozbob13

On the classification of Queensland Railways steam locomotives.
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…

Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queenslan…
There is a very good list of the classes as well.

An excellent source of information is:
Railway locomotive and rollingstock drawings
Brief guide 41 | Queensland State Archives
publications.qld.gov.au/dataset/83f180…

Example.
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
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queenslan…
#4-6 built North Ipswich Railway workshops

Example.
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

Two B13 class locomotives on a mixed train heading past the Barron Falls on the Cairns Range Railway - c. 1902 hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/56… - #slqdigital @slqld

Merchants opposite the Kingaroy Railway Station - hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/12… - #slqdigital @slqld
B13 c. 1900

B13 Class locomotive no. 93, ca. 1886 - hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/55… - #slqdigital @slqld

B 13 class engine in service in Queensland from 1886
c. 1890
onesearch.slq.qld.gov.au/permalink/f/fh…

Some of B13s were sold to Commonwealth Railways for use at Port Augusta and in the Northern Territory.
Others were sold to sugar mills.
Bingera Mill’s #1 ex-QGR B13 Number 48 sold to the mill in 1951.
Photograph P G Dow c. 1954.

ANGRMS Newsletter
Volume 29 Number 293 June 2008
angrms.org.au/drb/drb_293.pdf

Two B13s were sold to the Beaudesert Shire for use on the Beaudesert Shire Tramway, no. 52 in 1921 and 185 in 1939.
B13 185 on tram at Beaudesert, Queensland, 1944
J.L. Buckland
nla.gov.au/nla.obj-155044…

B13 steam locomotive no. 185 at Tabooba Junction station, Beaudesert Shire Tramway - 1944
hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/38… - #slqdigital @slqld
Note 'Foden' 4-2-0T locomotive in background.

Ex QGR B13 at Katherine NT.
" The Flyer at Katherine "
hdl.handle.net/10070/261806
c. 1930s ?

Locomotive 'Jumbo' owned by Robertson & Haig, ca. 1880
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.
flickr.com/photos/stateli…

#QRsteamlocomotives
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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