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NZR G class
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Beyer, Peacock and Company· from 1928· class of 3 double-Pacific Garratts rebuilt as 6 pacific locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. NZR g class garratt: Albert Percy Godber,· Public domain
what is it?
The NZR G class was a type of Garratt locomotives used in New Zealand, later rebuilt as Pacific type locomotives. They were the only Garratt type steam locomotives ever used by the New Zealand Railways (NZR). They were ordered to deal with traffic growth over the heavy gradients of the North Island Main Trunk (NIMT) and to do away with the use of banking engines on steep grades.
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 98 years ago, in 1928.
- 25.6 m long: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 3 years (1928–1931).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1928
- in service from
- 1928
- retired
- 1931
- status
- retired
- number built
- 3
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Beyer, Peacock and Company
- operators
- New Zealand Railways Department
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Garratt: 4-6-2+2-6-4
- length
- 25.6 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q603248, Wikipedia: NZR G class (1928) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.