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#CRsteamlocomotives
NM class 4-8-0 same design as QGR C17 but with larger tenders and vacuum rather than air brakes
22 built 1925-1927 Thompson & Co Castlemaine
NM15-NM28 NM31-NM38

NM Class locomotive - NM 28 being built
NAA recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetriev…

All but one NM to CAR, NM 38 went to NAR. Lightly used (too heavy for light top end rail) and returned to CAR 1941.

C.R. NM Class No. 28, Quorn 1949
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+465…

Central Australian Railway in the Pichi Richi Pass, S. A. [i.e. South Australia], NM 17 blasts upgrade to summit with northbound freight train, near Woolshed Flat 20/4/55 [picture] / John L. Buckland
nla.gov.au/nla.obj-155033…

Commonwealth Railways NM class No. 19, Port Augusta Railway station
UON
livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/855…

NM class locomotive hauling a goods train through Heavitree Gap, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, 1947 [picture] / E.W. Searle
nla.gov.au/nla.obj-141888…

Southbound from the Alice, an NM class 4-8-0 traverses Heavitree Gap through the MacDonnell Ranges en route to Port Augusta with a cattle train, ca. 1950s
nla.gov.au/nla.obj-155052…

The steam train 'The Ghan'. Alice Springs 1937
hdl.handle.net/10070/11498
NM28?

Pause on the Ghan between Terowie and Alice Springs for troops on train 1941
hdl.handle.net/10070/39177

Pichi Richi Railways Afghan Express NM25 crosses the 1878 iron bridge over the Waukarie Creek 2007
collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+719…
NM25, NM34 preserved rest scrapped.

NM 34, NM-Class steam engine at the National Railway Museum, Port Adelaide
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwea…
Info @NRMPortAdelaide > nrm.org.au/collections/31…

Video:
Pichi Richi Railway Steam locomotive NM25 Pt Augusta to Woolshed Flat South Australia 2014

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