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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)
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1938 loco SAR Tx278 - Tailem Bend (Ralph Skewes)
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T252 alongside water column - Gladstone (Wayne Morris Collection)
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Tx278 and T252 are the same locomotive, just different gauges!
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740 class 2-8-2 Clyde 1952-3
Originally 50 std gauge ordered by Fed Govt for China. This fell through, 20 built. 10 went to Commonwealth Railways as L class, 10 to SAR converted to 5' 3"

North Adelaide c. 1952
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Train at Adelaide Railway Station 1952
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North Adelaide 1952
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720 class 2-8-4
17 built 1930-1943 Islington Railway Workshops
Improved version of 710 class with a booster truck hence unusual 2-8-4 arrangement
#720-36

Goods train at unidentified location c. 1953
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#733
720 class tractive effort:43,400 lbs
with booster cut in52,000 lbs
Confined to heavy lines as tendency to spread rails on the lighter lines.

Goods train at Eden Hills, 28 July 1951
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Terowie fast freight train at Mile End, March 1953
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#SARsteamlocomotives
710 class 2-8-2 modified 700 class
10 built 1928-29 Islington Railway Workshops
#710-719
During WW2 some converted to burn oil. Converted back to coal after the war

Engine No.711 and tender at Mile End 1952
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Goods train (engine No.715) at Eden Hills c. 1953
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7.05 am Barmera & Pinnaroo (diesel hauled) train meets the morning train from Tailem Bend at Balhannah, 1 February 1954.
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