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New South Wales Z20 class locomotive
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Beyer, Peacock and Company· from 1890· class of 12+14+7 Australian 2-6–4T locomotives
3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. NSWGR Locomotive Class AE: NSWGR Archives· Public domain
- 2. New South Wales Railway Museum 62: hugh llewelyn· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 3. NSWGR Class Z20 Locomotive: NSWGR Archives· Public domain
what is it?
The New South Wales Z20 class is a class of 2-6-4T steam locomotives operated by 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 136 years ago, in 1890.
- Weighs about as much as 10 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
- 1890–1891
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 33
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Beyer, Peacock and Company, Eveleigh Railway Workshops
- operators
- New South Wales Government Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-6-4
- weight
- 57.2 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16926707, Wikipedia: New South Wales Z20 class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.