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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
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+588…

Goods train (engine No.715) at Eden Hills c. 1953
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+588…

7.05 am Barmera & Pinnaroo (diesel hauled) train meets the morning train from Tailem Bend at Balhannah, 1 February 1954.
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+588…
#711

Eden Hills down train c. 1953
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+588…
#715

Goods train at Sleeps Hill, about to enter tunnel c. 1952
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+588…
#713

Two trains at Mount Lofty Railway Station, Stirling c. 1951
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+588…
#712

SAR, 710 Class, No. 710 "Sir Alexander Ruthven" Mikado type, Islington Workshops, Adelaide , [1926]
UON
livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/304…

SAR 710 Class, Mikado type, hauling trial run of 94-car cattle train from Dry Creek to Gawler, SA, 15 April 1929
UON
livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/304…

710s withdrawn 1961-1968
All scrapped 1962-1968

Stored SAR locos - loco 711 + 716 + 719 + 712 + 529 - accident train wagons + others in background - Mile End Loco
comrails.com/pic_mbc/mbc_b0…
Not dated c. 1961

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