D53 (TF939) 2-8-0 goods 190 built 1912–1917
Improved D50 design
Clyde Engineering (160),
Eveleigh Railway Workshops (30)
road numbers 5301- 5490
NSWGR D53 Class, no. 5325, with single passenger carriage
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Most D53s were fitted with superheaters when built and some fitted at a later date.
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NSWGR D53 #??09 hauling freight through suburbs after snowfall
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Close examination shows train was a single carriage (mail?) with box vans. Probably a fast mail & fruit train.
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brakes failed on a freight train coming down the Cowan Bank, it ran into a locomotive that was sitting idle at Brooklyn Station.
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Preserved:
5353 Dorrigo Stored
5367 Lachlan Valley Railway undergoing repairs
5461 Valley Heights Static Display
5367 - Junee shuttles - October 1997