Thread by @ozbob13

#SARsteamlocomotives
Y/Yx class 2-6-0 3' 6" gauge
129 built 1885-98
Beyer, Peacock & Co (50)
Islington Workshops (2)
James Martin & Co (77)
1904 >1924 48 fitted with Belpaire boilers & reclassified Yx class

Yx169 as rebuilt May 1906
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/PRG+2…

Road numbers
Y/Yx 22, 38, 43, 49, 57 to 106, 108 to 142, 147 to 179, 195

Viceregal train at Port Augusta for the turning of the first sod on the Trans Australian Railway 14 September 1912
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/PRG+3…
Y103 & Y106

James Martin's locomotive yard with employees at Gawler c. 1890
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+467…
Y class number not known.

Y Class locomotive standing outside the workshops at Quorn c. 1920
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+554…

Y class locomotive No. 94 decorated with French flags pulling a passenger train c. 1916
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/PRG+3…

A James Martin "Y" class locomotive used on the Broken Hill Line c. 1906
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+467…
Y108

SAR, Y Class No. 93, 2-6-0 Mogul Type at Peterborough Locomotive Depot, SA, [1930s]
UON
livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/3293

SAR Y Class No. 104 2-6-0 Mogul Type, 1067mm (3' 6") Gauge, at Naracoorte Locomotive Depot, [1950]
livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/4923

SAR Y Class, No. 87 Mogul Type, at Naracoorte Locomotive Depot, [1950]
UON
livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/4949

Y class also operated on the Silverton Tramway
This is a very interesting photograph.

'Silverton Tramway "Y" class #16 and SAR "V" class (roundhouse rat) at Peterborough loco depot' 1951
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+588…
That's V145! At least it survived till 1951.

Some of the SAR Y class locos ended up in WA logging.

[West Australian] logging locomotive No. 62, [ex-SAR Y Class]
livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/870…

WW2 18 were sold to Comm Rail use on NAR as Nfb class. Some to Tasmania.
Preserved:
Y71 WA RTM
Yx86 WA RTM
Y82 Peterborough
Y97 NRM
Y109 Manjimup
Yx135 (NFB88) Katherine
Yx141 Pichi Richi
Yx176 Yarloop

Y97. J Rhule Collection
@NRMPortAdelaide
nrm.org.au/collections/31…

Video:
SAR Yx141 leads Pichi Richi Railway Charter: Quorn to Woolshed Flat 23rd of June 2018

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