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B class 4-6-0T 11 built 1884-89
Kitson & Co (8)
Dübs & Co (3)
B8-B9 B12-B14 B180-B185
For the steeply graded Eastern Railway from Guildford to Chidlow.

No. 8 Kitson & Co. built B class
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When displaced from mainline workings the Bs were used mainly as shunters.
Later Bs built with larger water tanks. Others retrofitted.

WAGR B Class 4-6-0T, no. 180
UON
livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/882…
WAGR B class 4-6-0T, taken at Kitson & Co. works, Leeds, 1898
Builders photograph. Note larger water tanks.
UON
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WAGR B class 4-6-0T, No. 183
No dated
UON
livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/887…
B class 181, Fremantle Wharf 1950
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B class 14 in later condition with extended smokebox and side tanks
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The last of the Bs shunted on till 1959.
All scrapped.

WAGR B Class, number not visible, shunting tank cars in yard
UON
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Ec class 4-6-2 heavy pass & goods
Vauclain compound locos
20 built 1901 Baldwin Locomotive Works
Ec236-Ec255
All rebuilt to L class in 1924 Midlands workshops

WAGR Ec class locomotive, No. 255, Midland Railway Workshops, 1901
UON
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Ec class 249, Kellerberrin with crew c. 1900s
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EC class 250, Bungalla, EGR line, mixed train
c. 1900s
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E class 2-4-4-2T double-Fairlie
2 built 1879 Avonside Engine Company E7 E20
E7 at Geraldton
C. 1880s
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Not successful in operation.
E20 was cut up in 1891 one half formed a 2-4-2T tank engine F20. Other half adapted for driving machinery.
E7 sold 1885 to timber company and was scrapped in 1897

F class 20 from a print in the WA Railways Institute Magazine
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When E7 scrapped driving wheels of E 7 reused into a second tender for Coates another steam locomotive. Other parts were used to build a log hauler.
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Dd class 4-6-4T 10 built 1946 Midland Railway Workshops
Dd591-Dd600 improved Dm class and unlike Dm all components new

WAGR Dd 595 shunting "Westland" 1st class carriage no. AZ348 Perth Railway Station
UON
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Possibly c. late 1940/50
Dd class 592, dual pole bracket signal, Midland, on a suburban passenger train departing Midland
c. 1960s
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Dd class 592, NSWR C3801, South Beach, "Western Endeavour", parallel running
c. 1970s
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