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ARHS Vic Museum - Steam Collection

There are 18 steam engines preserved at the museum ranging from the tiny T94 up to the behemoth H220 Heavy Harry. The oldest locomotive in the collection was built in 1880 and the most recent 1951.

PictureIdentifierInformation
F 176F 176Built in 1880 by Phoenix Foundry Ballarat Victoria for suburban passenger service.
T 94T 94Built in 1884 by Phoenix Foundry Ballarat Victoria for general purpose service.
Y 108T 108Built in 1889 by Phoenix Foundry Ballarat Victoria for general purpose service.
A sister locomotive Y 112 has been restored to service by West Coast Railway and can be seen regularly steaming around Victoria. Contact WCR (www.wcr.com.au) for more information.
E 369E 369Built in 1892 by Phoenix Foundry Ballarat Victoria for suburban passenger service. Note the side plates installed later in life during her shunting years.
E 236E 236Built in 1893 by David Munro United Kingdom for suburban passenger service. Since E 236 was built in 1893 in England and E 369 was built locally in Ballarat in 1892 it suggests that the Victorian Railways numbered the locomotives when they were ordered rather than delivered.
D2 604D2 604Built in 1911 by Beyer Peacock United Kingdom for light passenger and goods service.
D3 635D3 635Built in 1911 by Baldwin Locomotive USA for light passenger and goods service.
D4 268D4 268Built in 1910 in-house by Victorian Railways Newport Workshops for aa service. This class is the first group of locomotives built internally by the VR - previously they had assembled some of the locomotives but not built any from scratch.
No picture - bummer, I missed one :)A2 884Built in 1915 by Victorian Railways Newport Workshops for mainline passenger service.
A2 995A2 995Built in 1916 by Victorian Railways Newport Workshops for mainline passenger service.
X 36X 36Built in 1929 by Victorian Railways Newport Workshops for heavy goods service.
C 10C 10Built in 1922 by Victorian Railways Newport Workshops for heavy freight service.
H 220 Heavy HarryH 220Built in 1941 by Victorian Railways Newport Workshops for heavy freight service. This locomotive was the prototype for what should have been a whole class. The locomotive weighs in at 260 tons and is the heaviest ever built or operated by the VR. The locomotive was only used on the Melbourne-Albury line due to its weight and size. The bridges either could not take the weight or tunnels were too low on the other lines.
K 165K 165Built in 1941 by Victorian Railways Newport Workshops for light lines passenger and goods service.
Australian Standard GarrattStd. GarrattBuilt in 1945 by Victorian Railways Newport Workshops for narrow gauge service.
N 432N 432Built in 1951 by Victorian Railways Newport Workshops for general purpose service.
R 704R 704Built in 1951 by North British Glasgow for passenger mainline service. This class was launched directly into competition with the B class diesel and did not last long before the diesels took over. Most of the operating preserved mainline locomotives in Victoria are members of the R class. These are my personal favorite. West Coast Railway recently rebuilt one of these units to compete with diesel units sucesfully.
J 559J 559Built in 1954 by Vulcan Foundry Britain for general purpose service.

 
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