WAGR Z class
The Z class was a class of diesel-mechanical locomotives built by Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns, Newcastle upon Tyne for the Western Australian Government Railways in 1953.
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 Preserved Z1151 at Steamtown circa 1996 | |||||||||||||||||
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History
In November 1953 three diesel-hydraulic locomotives commenced operating at Albany, Bunbury and Esperance yards. All three were withdrawn in January 1983 and preserved.[1]
Status table
- Z1151: Static Display - Steamtown, Peterborough, South Australia
- Z1152: Operational - Hotham Valley Railway, Pinjarra
- Z1153: Stored - Boulder Loopline Railway, Kalgoorlie
gollark: I don't actually have a "bible" to open up.
gollark: Oh, so you follow the cobble thing around? Right, that's easier than following a *moving* Jesus.
gollark: It looks ugly and it'd get in the way.
gollark: I don't get it, you just randomly put some cobble in the middle of your base? Why?
gollark: So, you just follow some Jesus or other around, sort of thing? Doesn't that get annoying?
References
- Z1152 Hotham Valley Railway
- Gunzburg, Adrian (1968). WAGR Locomotives 1940–1968. Perth: Australian Railway Historical Society (Western Australian Division). pp. 37, 49. OCLC 219836193.
| Steam tender (1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)) |    | |
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| Steam tank (narrow gauge) | ||
| Steam Garratt (narrow gauge) | ||
| Diesel-hydraulic (narrow gauge) | ||
| Diesel-mechanical (narrow gauge) | ||
| Diesel-electric (narrow gauge) | ||
| Diesel-electric (standard gauge) | ||
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