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New South Wales Z21 class locomotive
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Baldwin Locomotive Works· from 1885· class of 10 Australian 2-6-0 locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. NSWGR L.304 Class Locomotive: NSWGR Archives· Public domain
what is it?
The Z21 class (formerly L.304 class) was a class of steam locomotives built for the New South Wales Government Railways in Australia.
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.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1885
- in service from
- 1885
- status
- retired
- number built
- 10
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Baldwin Locomotive Works
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-6-0
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16926714, Wikipedia: New South Wales Z21 class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.