#0752
New South Wales C32 class locomotive
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Beyer, Peacock and Company· from 1892· class of 191 Australian 4-6-0 locomotives
3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. NSWGR Locomotive P6: NSWGR Archives· Public domain
- 2. New South Wales C32 Class No. 3214 locomotive at the Valley Heights Depot Museum - October 2014: nzsteam· CC BY 2.0
- 3. NSWGR Class C32 Locomotive: NSWGR Archives· Public domain
what is it?
The C32 class is a class of steam locomotives built 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 134 years ago, in 1892.
- Served for 79 years (1892–1971).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1892–1911
- in service from
- 1892
- retired
- 1971
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 191
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Beyer, Peacock and Company, Baldwin Locomotive Works, Clyde Engineering, Eveleigh Railway Workshops
- operators
- New South Wales Government 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 Q7011676, Wikipedia: New South Wales C32 class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.