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#SARsteamlocomotive
700 class 2-8-2
10 built 1926 Armstrong Whitworth
designed to operate on all broad gauge branch lines
#700-709

SAR, 700 Class, No. 700 Mikado type, Islington Workshops, Adelaide, SA, [1926]
UON
livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/304…

Goods train at North Adelaide 1949
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+588…
#706

Passenger train at Sleeps Hill, 28 December 1953
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+588…
#701

Goods train at Sleeps Hill c. 1951
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+588…
#706

Engine No.709 and tender at Mile End 1952
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+588…

Christmas decorations on engine No.701 at Bridgewater, 28 December 1951
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+588…

Eden Hills up train c. 1951
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+588…
#705

Driver's controls of '700' class, No.700
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+588…

Goods train at Eden Hills 1951
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+588…
#704

SAR 700 Clas, no.707, hauling goods, driver in cab window, at unidentified railway station, rural [c. 1950]
UON
livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/882…

Class leader #700 1926
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+3993
Nice photograph of the proud crew.

700 class withdrawn 1959-1967
#702 preserved, rest scrapped by 1968.

National Railway Museum #702 (NRM) static exhibit 2004
Bingley Hall
flickr.com/photos/markcar…

Info @NRMPortAdelaide
> nrm.org.au/collections/31…

Film:
700 class Steam to Willunga South Australia 1967

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