#0552
Commonwealth Railways F class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Baldwin Locomotive Works· from 1885· American built locomotive used in Australia
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. NSWGR Locomotive K.294: NSWGR Archives· Public domain
what is it?
The Commonwealth Railways F class was a 2-6-0 tender engine built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1885 for the New South Wales Government Railways as their K.294 class and later sold to the Commonwealth Railways becoming their F class.
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 141 years ago, in 1885.
- Weighs about as much as 11 African elephants (~6 t each).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1885
- retired
- 1921
- status
- retired
- number built
- —
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Baldwin Locomotive Works
- designer
- Mr W. Scott
- operators
- New South Wales Government Railways, Commonwealth Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-6-0
- weight
- 68 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q104863896, Wikipedia: Commonwealth Railways F class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.