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#NSWGRsteamlocomotives
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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NSWGR D53 locomotive, no, 5365, unidentified location, c. 1935
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NSWGR, D53 Class, No. 5325, standard goods locomotive, up goods, Tarana, NSW, [1930s]
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Most D53s were fitted with superheaters when built and some fitted at a later date.

NSWGR D53 Class No. 5454 2-8-0 Consolidation Type Standard Goods Locomotive pauses at Cowan on the Northern line with an up goods, [1940]
livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/8226

NSWGR D53 Class No. 5420 assisting C36 Class on Western Line Passenger near Springwood, [1940s]
livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/8229

As built D53s had balance problems > restricted speed. Some had balanced coupled wheels fitted and these were permitted to operate at higher speed on mail & fruit trains.

NSWGR D53 #??09 hauling freight through suburbs after snowfall
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NSWGR D53 Class, no. 5323, with unusual consist
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Close examination shows train was a single carriage (mail?) with box vans. Probably a fast mail & fruit train.

NSWGR D53 Class, no. 5439, leaving old Hawkesbury River Bridge with freight train, Long Island, NSW [1924-1946]
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NSWGR D53 locomotive, no. 5448, aftermath of a collision, Brooklyn Railway Station, Hawkesbury River, February 22nd, 1925.
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NSWGR D53 locomotives, aftermath of a collision, Brooklyn Railway Station, Hawkesbury River, February 22nd, 1925.
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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.

NSWGR D53, no. 5452, and unknown C32, hauling a tourist train uphill, probably Blue Mountains area, 1930's.
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NSWGR TF Class (later D53) locomotive, no. 1164. 200th locomotive built by Clyde Engineering, Granville, July 1916
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NSWGR, D-53 Class, No. 5419 passing Leura in snow covered Blue Mountains enroute to Valley Heights, NSW, [1930s]
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Last D53 was withdrawn from service in 1973.

Preserved:
5353 Dorrigo Stored
5367 Lachlan Valley Railway undergoing repairs
5461 Valley Heights Static Display

5367 - Junee shuttles - October 1997

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