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Commonwealth Railways G class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Baldwin Locomotive Works· from 1914· class of 26 Australian 4-6-0 locomotives
7 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. G1, NRM, 2014: Bahnfrend· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Commonwealth Railways G class locomotive and Trans-Australian Express at Tarcoola, circa 1925: Unknown author Unknown author· Public domain
- 3. Australian Steam - CR G1 - 54277302218: shipley43· CC BY 2.0
- 4. Commonwealth Railways steam locomotives at the National Railway Museum, Port Adelaide, December 2013: Michael Coghlan· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 5. G1 National Railway Museum - Australia: Phil_Parker· CC BY 2.0
- 6. National Railway Museum, Port Adelaide in April 2026 - 017: Yu Chu Chin· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. Preserved South Australian Railways steam locomotives at Mile End Railway Museum: Brian Townsley· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The Commonwealth Railways G class is a class of twenty-six 4-6-0 tender locomotives of the Commonwealth Railways, Australia. The class operated between Port Augusta (later, Port Pirie) and Kalgoorlie on the 1435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) Trans-Australian Railway.
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 112 years ago, in 1914.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1914–1917
- in service from
- 1914
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 26
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Baldwin Locomotive Works, Clyde Engineering, Toowoomba Foundry
- operators
- Commonwealth Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-6-0
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16927164, Wikipedia: Commonwealth Railways G class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.