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#SARsteamlocomotives
500 class 4-8-2
10 built 1926 Armstrong Whitworth #500-509
All rebuilt as 4-8-4 from 1929 with fitting of booster truck 500B class.
Transformation of SAR. Bigger locos, heavier rail.

502 fresh of the boat!
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+3994

500 class locomotive with Royal Train, Adelaide 1927
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/PRG+3…
500 class 'Mountain' locomotive No. 507 named 'Margaret Murray' was employed from Tailem Bend to Adelaide.

Class 500 No. 503, Mile End. 1937
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+465…
Now a 4-8-4

Train at Murray Bridge 1935 504
@SLSA collections
collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+703…

502 at Sleeps Hill, South Australia c. 1953
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+588…
The 500 class replaced two sometimes 3 Rx locomotives on the hills.

Th Overland at Eden Hill 1951 506
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+588…

Locomotive 506 carrying motor cars to the Eastern States
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+240…
1939

In late 1930's all but 503 and 506 were partially streamlined.
Newly streamlined 501 on The Overland 1938
From 'The 500 Class Steam Locomotives of the SAR'
mrsac.com/wp-content/upl…

No. 506 about to enter the tunnel at Eden Hills 1949.
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+588…

508 at Bridgewater 1950
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+588…

504 at Sleeps Hill 1953
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+588…

500s withdrawn 1958-1963.
504 preserved rest scrapped by 1965.

Locomotive 504 " Tom Barr Smith "
Douglas Colquhoun Collection, National Railway Museum.
nrm.org.au/collections/31…

504 "Tom Barr Smith" being shunted at the NRM @NRMPortAdelaide
2017

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