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#SARsteamlocomotives
Tx 4-8-0 converted 3' 6" T class locos.
Given Tx class 5 T class converted 1922/23.
Converted back to 3' 6" gauge 1949.
For lightly laid Murraylands branch lines out of Tailem Bend depot.

Tx278 at Tailem Bend 1938
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+465…
Tx Conversions:
T183 > Tx276 > T183
T199 > Tx277 > T199
T220 > Tx280 > T220
T243 > Tx279 > T243
T252 > Tx278 > T252

Tx279 Tailem Bend 1949 before conversion back to 5' 3"
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+465…
c.1949 Islington - loco T199 on wellwagon after conversion from Tx (Lionel Kingsborough)
comrails.com/pic_mbc/mbc_b1…
1938 loco SAR Tx278 - Tailem Bend (Ralph Skewes)
comrails.com/pic_mbc/mbc_b0…
T252 alongside water column - Gladstone (Wayne Morris Collection)
comrails.com/pic_mbc/mbc_b1…
Tx278 and T252 are the same locomotive, just different gauges!
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