#1453
Tasmanian Government Railways K class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Beyer, Peacock and Company· from 1909· class of 2 Australian 0-4-0+0-4-0 Garratt locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. WHR K1 at Rhyd Ddu 2013-09-06: ARG_Flickr· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The Tasmanian Government Railways K class is a class of 2 0-4-0+0-4-0 Garratt locomotives operated by the Tasmanian Government Railways from 1909. They were the first Garratt locomotives built.
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 117 years ago, in 1909.
- 9.8 m long: about 2 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
- 1909
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 2
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Beyer, Peacock and Company
- operators
- Tasmanian Government Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 610 mm 2 ft narrow gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-4-0+0-4-0T
- length
- 9.8 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1607649, Wikipedia: Tasmanian Government Railways K class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.