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Queensland A10 Avonside class locomotive
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Avonside Engine Company· from 1864· class of 4 Australian 2-4-0 locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Railway workers posing with the Lady Bowen locomotive, ca. 1865: State Library of Queensland, John Oxley Collection· Public domain
what is it?
The Queensland Railways A10 Avonside class locomotive was a class of 2-4-0 steam locomotives operated by the Queensland Railways.
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 162 years ago, in 1864.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1864
- status
- retired
- number built
- 4
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Avonside Engine Company
- operators
- Queensland Rail
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-4-0
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q23926699, Wikipedia: Queensland A10 Avonside class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.