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L class 2-8-2
Built 1951-1952 Clyde
Fed Govt commissioned 50 std gauge locos for China.
This fell through after 20 built.
10 SAR (re-gauged to 5' 3" 740 class)
10 for CR L class.
L80-89

Port Augusta unloading from s.s. Belbetty
comrails.com/pic_cr/cr_cme0…
Construction Stirling North to Marree - L81 front view alongside rail wagons (Commonwealth Railways) 1953
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The L class locos were used on some construction trains and not much else as they were delivered to CR as GM diesel-electric's entered service making the L class surplus. Some were never used.

Port Augusta L class 2-8-2 stored (John Beckhaus) 1966
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L83 L84 L85 L86 L87 L88 L89 were not used.
Rest withdrawn c. 1959.
All scrapped mid 1960s.
Tenders were used on weed killer train.

Port Augusta - Poison train wagons ex L class tenders (Chris Drymalik - 35mm) 1986
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NFA class 2-6-0
Dubs and Co Glasgow (builders No.3385) 1896
CR purchased as ex contractor loco in 1915
Design similar to NZR J class
1 only NFA8 used NAR
Withdrawn 1925 scrapped c. 1960

New Zealand Railways locomotive J 2-6-0 class
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'Number 1' used by Smith and Timms on construction of the Yeelanna-Minnipa Hill and Cummins-Kimba railway lines on Eyre Peninsula between 1912 and 1915.
This was loco purchased by CR 1915 and is NFA8
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NF class 2-6-0
CR 1911/15
ex SAR W class
built c. 1877-82 Beyer Peacock
NF2 - W13
3 - 21
4 - 36
5 - 53
6 - 54
NF7 - W51 poor condition
Also W35 poor condition used to reconstruct NF7
Used on NAR

CR NF5 (Chris Drymalik Collection)
comrails.com/pic_common/b13… Image
Two men on railway train, Northern Territory, approximately 1927 / Michael Terry
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NF class loco Image
Railway workers on a steam engine c. 1882 Beltana GNR
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This is a W possibly what was to become NF5 or NF6 Image
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NB class 0-6-0T (saddle) 3' 6" gauge
Built Vulcan Iron Works USA 1916
Used for construction works Henderson Naval Base WA
Purchased by CR 1925 for CAR NB29 & NB30

C.R. NB Class No. 30, Quorn 1949
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NB29 (Chris Drymalik Collection)
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NB30 at Quorn (Chris Drymalik Collection)
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