#0319
NZR J class
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Avonside Engine Company· from 1874· class of 33 New Zealand 2-6-0 locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. No 118, a J class steam locomotive, 2-6-0 type, altered for shunting at Petone Railway Workshops.: Albert Percy Godber· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The NZR J class were steam locomotives with the wheel arrangement of 2-6-0 that were built in 1874 to operate on the New Zealand Railways (NZR). The J class was the first class of locomotive in New Zealand to have a tender; all previous classes were tank engines.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 152 years ago, in 1874.
- 12.5 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 61 years (1874–1935).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1874–1884
- in service from
- 1874
- retired
- 1935
- status
- retired
- number built
- 33
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Avonside Engine Company, Neilson and Company, Robert Stephenson and Company, Dübs and Company, Vulcan Foundry
- operators
- New Zealand Railways Department
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-6-0
- length
- 12.5 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6956212, Wikipedia: NZR J class (1874) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.