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F class 2-6-0
7 Nfb class (orig SAR Yx class) purchased from Comm Rail 4 entered service in Tasmania.
Nfb96 - F1
94 - F2
43 - F3
48 - F4

Nfb 44,46,91 never entered service (spares)

Yx on the Great Northern Railway. SLSA: B 55492
pichirichirailway.org.au/component/cont…
F1 was sold to the Emu Bay Railway as their number 19 1956. EBR locos 4 5 & 9 were essentially the same as the F class. The F locos were purchased in 1949 from Com Rail.

Emu Bay Railway No. 9 shunting wagons beside Marine Terrace Burnie, [c. 1950]
UON
livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/871…
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#CRsteamlocomotives
Commonwealth Railways (CR)
Established 1917 by Govt of Aust with Commonwealth Railways Act to administer Trans-Australia & Port Augusta to Alice Springs and Birdum to Darwin railways.

Trans Australian Railway 1924 South Australia
nla.gov.au/nla.obj-162815…
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G class 4-6-0 std gauge
26 built 1914-1917
Baldwin Locomotive Works (12)
Clyde Engineering (4)
Toowoomba Foundry (10)
Same as NSWGR C32 (P6) class but higher capacity tenders
CR G class, first into Kalgoorlie, Trans-Australian Railway, 1917
livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/885… Image
Commonwealth Railways engine G 1 (Chris Drymalik Collection) c. 1914
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Final thread.
Been interesting, fascinating range of locos hey?

TGR took over the rail services between Hobart and Launceston of the Tasmanian Main Line Railway Co. in 1890.
This was 3' 6" gauge.

Map Tasmanian Main Line Company line
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmanian… Image
Ex TMLR locos classed:

E+ 5 1873-1875 Hunslet 5 4-4-0
A+ 1 1875 Hunslet 4-4-0T
F 1 1878 Neilson 4-4-0 Orig 0-4-2
B+ 3 1884 Hunslet 4-4-0
D+ 2 1886-1887 Dubs 4-4-2T
C+ 4 1889-1890 Dubs 4-6-0

A class tank loco Hunslet ex TMLR
stors.tas.gov.au/AI/PH30-1-409 Image
Accident on TMLR at Coal Mine Bend between Colebrook and Rhyndaston on 24 April 1877,
Hunslet? down the embankment.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmanian… Image
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5' 3" gauge locos ex Launceston & Western Railway Co taken over in 1873 by TGR
Last broad gauge train was 1888

4 1868-1870 Stephenson 4-4-0T
1 1873 Sharp Stewart 2-4-0
All class A.

Sketch A class 4-4-0T built for L&WR
stors.tas.gov.au/PH30-1-414$ini… Image
Tasmanian Government Railways, Invermay railway yard, Launceston, Tasmania, [1900s]
UON
livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/4309
Dual gauge track before removal
Workshop buildings of the Launceston & Western Railway, in the background Image
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