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#SARsteamlocomotives
SAR had both 3'6" and 5'3" gauge locos. Classification was based on the alphabet and then numbers when all letters used. A few locos not classified.

"Honi soit qui mal y pense" strange motto for a railway.
( shamed be (the person) who thinks evil of it )

Broad Gauge Locomotives #1, 2 and 3, 2-4-0 well tank
William Fairbairn - Manchester, England 1856
Converted to tender engines in 1869

No. 1, circa 1869, after conversion from tank to tender loco. NRM
pbs.twimg.com/media/EUfwQZZW…

They were named Adelaide, Victoria & Albert, later being renumbered 1-3. First locos used to pull trains on SAR Adelaide to Port Adelaide line 1856.

Railway Station Port Adelaide 1868
@SLSA collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+1868
Port Adelaide showing the building as originally erected in 1856

A class 2-4-0 well tank
Robert Stephenson and Company 1868
1, 19 & 20
First broad gauge locos to be fitted with outside cylinders
Last scrapped 1924. Useful later as shunters.

South Australian Railways A Class No. 19
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sout…

Adelaide Railway Station - 1910
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+123…
locos are from left to right: "A" class, "E" class: "L" class.

Port Dock - loco A19 (Lionel Kingsborough)
comrails.com/pic_lk/lk_0333…
Not dated probably c. 1920

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