F class (1st and 2nd)
1st. 4-4-0T 5' 3"
2 built 1869 Avonside Engine Company 21 & 22
Both damaged 1892 when being lifted during a rebuild. Withdrawn and scrapped.
S.A.R. No. 21 class F, Nairne to Milang train at Nairne, c. 1884
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44 built 1902-22
Islington Railway Workshops (21)
James Martin & Co (12)
Perry Engineering (10)
"F" Class Locomotive c 1909
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+110…
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F class tanks hauled most of Adelaide's passenger trains from1902 -1930s.
South Australian Railways F-Class locomotive 188. Semaphore, Adelaide, South Australia, [n.d.]
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@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+555…
c.1905
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@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+465…
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No.181 decorated for royal train July 1920
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174 was withdrawn 1961, scrapped 1962.
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A number of Fs were converted to oil burners c. 1949 most were converted back to coal c. 1957.
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Preserved F245, F249 (Boiler), F251 & F255
Rest scrapped1956-1968
Locomotive F255. Robert Haebich Collection, National Railway Museum @NRMPortAdelaide
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F171 Adelaide to Hamley Bridge South Australia 1967