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#SARsteamlocomotives
N class 4-6-0
2 built Baldwin 1881
Rebuilt Islington Railway Workshops 1904
52 & 53

Locomotive N Class
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+6840
Typical Baldwins as delivered. First SAR locos with bogie tenders. N53 c. 1882

A South Australian Railways 53 locomotive
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/PRG+2…
N53 after the rebuild. Quite the transformation.

N class locomotive No.52
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/PRG+3…

Locomotive & Engine shed
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+115…

Strathalbyn. Class "N". The engine number is 53. The town was founded in 1839 and the Victor Harbor railway line was extended to Mount Barker via Strathalbyn in 1869 and to Adelaide in 1884

Mount Lofty Railway Station
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+3115
N class at platform.

Railway Sheds, Murray Bridge
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+119…
N52 - on back of photo "Railway running sheds / Interstate Express Locomotive / Murray Bridge / 1907-11"

Withdrawn 1925-1927, both scrapped by 1928.

Port Adelaide - loco N53 as rebuilt (Lionel Kingsborough)
comrails.com/pic_lk/lk_0350…
Not dated, probably c 1920s before withdrawal.

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