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D58 4-8-2 in service 1950
Eveleigh Railway Workshops (11)
Cardiff Locomotive Workshops (2)
5801–5813 Modified version of the D57 class.
Withdrawn July 1957.
All scrapped, with exceptions to some tenders.
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National Advocate (Bathurst, NSW )
Thu 19 Jan 1950 Page 3
"58" CLASS LOCO ON TRIAL
NSWGR D-58 Class 4-8-2 Mountain Type Heavy Goods Locomotive on goods train at Moss Vale, [1950]
livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/8232
D5801
New 5801 on display at Eveleigh Railway Workshops,surrounded by rail workshop staff who built it on 20 January 1950. Twenty five were planned but only 13 of the D58 class were built.
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5809 at Enfield South Box in the 1950s
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5801 at Flemington Goods Junction heading for Enfield yards. 1950s.
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5804 between Penrith and Blacktown. 1950s.
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The D58 was launched with much fanfare and optimism. Rapidly displaced by diesel and electric locomotives and were in service for 7 years only.

Lithgow Mercury (NSW) 24 Jan 1950 Page 2
Giant Locomotive Gets "Civic Reception" At Lithgow
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NSWGR D58 Class, no. 5812, hauling freight consist, unidentified location, [n.d.]
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D50 (T524) 2-8-0 goods
Beyer, Peacock & Co. (151)
Dübs & Co. (5)
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North British Locomotive Co. (84)
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280 built 1896–1916

NSWGR T524 (later D50), class prototype 1896
Beyer Peacock
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NSWGR T524 Class (later D50), no. 356, freshly painted, unidentified location, [n.d.]
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NSWGR T524 (D50) locomotive, number unknown, unidentified location, late 1890's or early 1900's, [n.d.]
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Z29 (J483) 2-8-0 #483-502 Baldwin 1891
For transport and goods transport up the steep gradients of rail in the Blue Mountains.

NSWGR Class J-483 Class No. 486, 2-8-0 Consolidation Type steam locomotive, [1891]
livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/4374 Image
NSWGR J(483) Class locomotive, no. 499, unidentified location, [n.d.]
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NSWGR J Class (later reclassified Z29 Class) 2-8-0 Consolidation Type steam locomotive, Kelso near Bathurst NSW, [1900s]
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J131 (Z28) 2-8-0 Built Burnham, Parry, Williams & Co (Baldwin) 1879 11 #131-141

J 131 class locomotive number 134 later X1006, built by Baldwin September 1879
nla.gov.au/nla.obj-155391… Image
Class Z28 (J131) locomotive at the Clyde Yard
records.nsw.gov.au/image/17420-a0…
Not dated. Image
There were 4 J522 2-8-0 built Eveleigh Railway Workshops in 1893. These were grouped with the J131 in the Z28 class.
Referred to as " Native Bears "

Class Z28 (J522) locomotive
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