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Silverton Tramway Y class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Beyer, Peacock and Company· from 1888· steam locomotive of the Silverton Tramway, Australia
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. BrokenHillSilvertonTramwayLocomotive2: Mattinbgn· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Silverton Tramway Y class and SAR V class at Peterborough loco depot: Unknown photographer· Public domain
what is it?
The Silverton Tramway Y class is a class of 2-6-0 and 2-6-2T steam locomotives of the Silverton Tramway Company, operating between Broken Hill, New South Wales, and the border of South 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 138 years ago, in 1888.
- 12.2 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
tram / light rail: Street-running or light-rail vehicles that share or skirt the road.
spec sheet
- built
- 1888–1907
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 21
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Beyer, Peacock and Company, James Martin and Company
- operators
- Southern & Silverton Rail
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-6-0 (19 locos)
- length
- 12.2 m
- weight
- 2 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q23926701, Wikipedia: Silverton Tramway Y class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.