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B17 4-6-0
Built 1911 North Ipswich Railway Workshops
Total produced 21
Numbers538, 610-613, 676-691
All scrapped.
'Stationary steam locomotive at a railway station' hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/14… - #slqdigital @slqld
B17 class, number 611 unknown location.
B17 no.688 at Roma Street station during 1917-18.
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Red Cross Ambulance train, which transported wounded and sick soldiers home during the First World War.
B17 arriving at the Exhibition 1913.
The other locomotive looks like an A10.
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B17 538
Date location not known.
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#QRsteamlocomotives
C18 4-8-0 and the C19 4-8-0
C18s.
Built Ipswich Workshops 1914
Only 3 #692-694, all scrapped. Built to test superheaters. Converted to CC19 class 1930 19" cylinders.
QGR C18 692 at Roma Street, 1914 hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/14… - #slqdigital @slqld Image
The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld) Fri 20 Feb 1914 Page 7
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In March 1915, 693 was named Sir William MacGregor and 694 Lady MacGregor after the Governor of Queensland and his wife.
Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton, Qld) Mon 22 Mar 1915 Page 6
Full article:
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#QRsteamlocomotives
C17 4-8-0
Improved C16.
Ipswich Workshops (16)
Armstrong Whitworth (25)
Clyde Engineering (20)
Walkers Limited (138)
Evans, Anderson, Phelan & Co (28)
Built 1920–1953 total 227

Class C17 #256 built 1921 Evans Co. hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/84… - #slqdigital @slqld Image
Numbers2 15 17 24 25 29 32 33 45 46 55 57 62 68 121 138 145-147 165 166 179 182 187 188 226 245-259 261 263 264 308 705-730 752-767 772-791 802-826 831-840 858-863 917-948 955-1000
25 preserved 202 scrapped.
C17 #767 Gayndah 1955
Lance flickr.com/photos/7977365… Image
[Steam locomotive model C17, no. 929, New South Wales, December, 1948] [picture] / photograph by John Buckland
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A number were built by Clyde NSW. Note dual gauge track. Image
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C class 4 driving axles. Mixture of 4-8-0 and 2-8-0, one 2-8-2.
Early -
1. C13 Baldwin class locomotive 2-8-0 1879
43 & 118 both scrapped
2. C13 Dubbs six 2-8-0
112-117 all scrapped
C13 Class Dubs, 1883 - hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/84… - #slqdigital @slqld Image
3. C15 2-8-0 Baldwin 2 built 1879
Numbers42, 104 all scrapped
4. C16 2-8-0 Baldwin 3 built 1882
Numbers103, 143, 144 all scrapped
' C 16 class 'consolidation' engine with driver and fireman, ca. 1890 #103 '
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QR then developed a 4-8-0 C16.
Evans, Anderson, Phelan & Co (41)
North Ipswich Railway Workshops (51)
Toowoomba Foundry (15)
Walkers Limited (45)
Built 1903-1918 Total 152.

The Brisbane Courier Sat 27 Jul 1907 Page 13
First C16
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