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New South Wales C30T class locomotive
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Beyer, Peacock and Company· from 1903· locomotive class
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. NSWGR Class C30T Locomotive: NSWGR Archives· Public domain
- 2. NSW 3001 Locomotive - by Anton Leddin - 5: Anton Leddin· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The C30T class is an old class of steam locomotives rebuilt from 30 class tank engines by Clyde Engineering and Eveleigh Railway Workshops for the New South Wales Government Railways of Australia.
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 123 years ago, in 1903.
- Weighs about as much as 9 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
- 1903–1917
- retired
- 1972
- status
- preserved
- number built
- —
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Beyer, Peacock and Company
- operators
- New South Wales Government Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-6-0
- weight
- 54.9 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16926640, Wikipedia: New South Wales C30T class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.