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South Maitland Railways 10 Class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Beyer, Peacock and Company· from 1911· class of 14 Australian 2-8-2T locomotives
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. SMR 24: Shed Rat· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. SMR Class 10: Unknown author Unknown author· CC0
- 3. South Maitland Railways 10 Class No. 22 stored at the Richmond Vale Railway - April 2007 - 01: nzsteam· CC BY 2.0
- 4. South Maitland Railways 10 Class No. 22 stored at the Richmond Vale Railway - April 2007 - 02: nzsteam· CC BY 2.0
- 5. South Maitland Railways 10 Class No. 22 stored at the Richmond Vale Railway - April 2007 - 03: nzsteam· CC BY 2.0
- 6. South Maitland Railways 10 Class No. 30 operating on the Richmond Vale Railway - April 2007 - 01: nzsteam· CC BY 2.0
- 7. South Maitland Railways 10 Class No. 30 operating on the Richmond Vale Railway - April 2007 - 02: nzsteam· CC BY 2.0
- 8. South Maitland Railways 10 Class No. 30 operating on the Richmond Vale Railway - April 2007 - 03: nzsteam· CC BY 2.0
- 9. South Maitland Railways 10 Class No. 30 operating on the Richmond Vale Railway - April 2007 - 04: nzsteam· CC BY 2.0
- 10. South Maitland Railways 10 Class No. 30 operating on the Richmond Vale Railway - April 2007 - 05: nzsteam· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The South Maitland Railways 10 class locomotives is a class of 14 2-8-2T steam locomotives built for the East Greta Coal Company (later South Maitland Railway) by Beyer, Peacock & Company in Manchester, England, between 1911 and 1925. Members of this class of locomotive were the last steam locomotives in commercial use in 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 115 years ago, in 1911.
- Weighs about as much as 14 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 12.5 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1911
- in service from
- 1911
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 14
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Beyer, Peacock and Company
- operators
- South Maitland Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- wheel arrangement
- 2-8-2T
- length
- 12.5 m
- weight
- 84.3 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7567895, Wikipedia: South Maitland Railways 10 Class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.