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#QRsteamlocomotives
PB15 4-6-0 15" cylinders
Evans, Anderson, Phelan & Co (70)
North Ipswich Railway Workshops (1)
Kitson & Co (20)
Toowoomba Foundry (20)
Walkers Limited (122)
Built 1899-1926
Total 233
Warwick, ca. 1912 - PB15s hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/20… - #slqdigital @slqld

Numbers347-362, 385-384, 404-413, 434-509, 518-537, 540-609, 12, 5, 103, 126, 128, 143, 220, 286, 339, 340, 731-751
Mixture of valve gear Stephenson (locos built 1899–1912)
Walschaerts (locos built 1924–26).
Celebration end of World War I, 1918. PB 530
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PB15 similar to B15 but improved. P stood for ' passenger ' although these engines did everything. One of the most successful engines on QR.
Crowd of people welcoming the arrival of the first train at Nanango, Queensland, 1911 - PB15 hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/23… - #slqdigital @slqld

Dignitaries stand in the cab of PB15 locomotive no. 471, facing their audience during the official opening at Yarraman
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1901 DUKE AND DUCHESS OF CORNWALL AND YORK VISIT QUEENSLAND ROYAL TRAIN PERSPECTIVE VIEW PB15 CLASS STEAM LOCOMOTIVE ROMA STREET - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…

Up train to Kuraby near Rocklea #5 PB15 4-6-0 , 4'8 1/2 gauge siding to Rocklea industrial area from main line at left, 6 September 1944 / J.L. Buckland
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QR PB15 548 4-6-0 on down passenger at Bethania Junction, October 1944 / J.L. Buckland
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Steam locomotive with a livestock carriage at Quilpie, Queensland, ca. 1925 - hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/72… - #slqdigital @slqld PB15 440

Steam train at the Mayne Locomotive Depot, Brisbane, Queensland, 1946 - hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/98… - #slqdigital @slqld Steam locomotive PB15 class, number 483 during coal strike 1946, locos burning wood hence spark arrester on the chimney.
Seeing is believing! 😲

Locomotives in Main Street, Kangaroo Point, Brisbane, 1911. - Version details - Trove trove.nla.gov.au/version/266385… via @TroveAustralia PB15s
Engines were PB15 class built at Evans, Anderson and Phelan engineering works being moved to Woolloongabba via Main Street on temporary track.

Ipswich Railway Workshops Erecting Shop, engine being assembled, North Ipswich, ca 1910.
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PB15 Locomotive, No 351, Craven Cranes made in Manchester, Great Britain were used to transfer the engines from one line to another

Double heading PB15s power the Westlander out of Roma. At the time weight restrictions DEL not allowed past Roma. c. 1955.
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Preserved PB15s 444, 448, 454, 732, 738.
My grandson admiring PB 444 on display at Ipswich Workshops Museum 2019.

QPSR Troop Train August 2016 event, Ipswich Bundamba
PB 448
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Queenscliff (Victoria) PB15 454
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Weston Langford Railway Photography
454 is undergoing a major overhaul at the Bellarine Railway, Queenscliff, Victoria

PB15 732 at the Workshops Rail Museum, North Ipswich, Queensland. 2011
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PB 732 presently at Ipswich Rail Workshops

This was an ARHS tour from Roma St to Wandoan, Charleville, Quilpie and Cunnamulla in 1994 I had the good fortune to travel on.
Photograph is at Roma.
PB 732 all the way!!

Passing inbound Westlander west of Toowoomba behind PB 732 in 1994.
It is possible that PB732 once hauled the Westlander!

PB15 732 at the Workshops Rail Museum, North Ipswich, Queensland in 2011. Still there ....
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PB 15 738 runs around its four car train at Churchill 3rd December 1972.
Photographs Larry Matters
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738 is at Rosewood Railway Museum
ARHS Qld undergoing restoration.

'Steam Locomotive PB 15 - a drivers perspective'
PB 448 at the Queensland Pioneer Steam Railway at Swanbank. For their time, the PB15s were an excellent locomotive.

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