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#WAGRsteamlocomotives
Australian Standard Garratt 4-8-2+2-8-4
Built 1943-45
WAGR's Midland Workshops (10)
VR Newport Workshops (12)
SAR Islington Railway Workshops (13)
Clyde Engineering, Sydney (22)
WAGR purchased 25

ASG class G49 Garratt
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ASG class 29 Garratt locomotive, water tower, Collie Loco depot,
railheritagewa.org.au/archive_scans/…
c. 1940s

ASG class 59 Garratt, East Perth loco Depot
c. 1940s
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As for Qld, the ASGs were not popular with crews due to design issues and problems in Swan View tunnel resulting industrial disputes, and in the end a Royal Commission.

ASG class 55 Garratt, Swan View tunnel deviation, ER line
railheritagewa.org.au/archive_scans/…
c. 1950

ASG class 27 Garratt, Mosman Park, goods train to Fremantle
c. 1940s
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Six WAGR ASGs sold to SAR in 1952
Last ASG withdrawn WAGR in 1957
Good read >
The Australian Standard Garratt: the engine that brought down a government
espace.curtin.edu.au/bitstream/hand…

ASG class 54 in knocked down condition on transfer bogies, Parkeston
railheritagewa.org.au/archive_scans/…
c. 1940s

All the WAGR ASGs were scrapped.
The only surviving ASG is G33 that went to Fyansford 1945 and is now at Bellarine for restoration (
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ASG G33 at Fyansford
c. 1957 P G Dow

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