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#SARsteamlocomotives
520 class 4-8-4
12 built 1943-1947 Islington Railway Workshops
#520-531 streamlined powerful fast locos
Gawler Race Special at Islington, 3 November 1951
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+588…
526

South Coast Limited at Belair, 25 December 1951
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+588…
531

Keswick Junction 1949
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+588…
524

Broken Hill Express at North Adelaide, February 1952.
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+588…

Class 520 No. 520, Mile End. 1944
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+465…

520 class locomotive Sir Willoughby Norrie no. 525 at the Mount Lofty Station c. 1945
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+240…

Wirth's Circus arriving in Adelaide with animals and equipment c. 1952
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+588…
525

520 class engine and carriages passing through the North Adelaide parklands approaching Adelaide
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+588…
? 520

Goods train at North Adelaide 1953
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+588…
526

Withdrawn 1961-1971 2 preserved 520 & 523
remainder scrapped

Steam Ranger 520 leaving Adelaide 28 October 1994.
@SLSA
collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+614…

Locomotive 523. Robert Haebich Collection, National Railway Museum.
@NRMPortAdelaide
nrm.org.au/collections/31…

Video:
South Australian Railways 520 Class (the "Whispering Giants")

Film:
520 blasting out of Adelaide Railway Station 1983

Film:
Wallaroo South Australia with Steam Locomotive 526
Sep 1967

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