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Victorian Railways G class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Beyer, Peacock and Company· from 1925· class of 2 Australian 2-6-0+0-6-2 Garratt locomotives
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- 1. Puffing Billy Garratt G42 07: christophe mallet· CC BY-SA 2.0
what is it?
The Victorian Railways G class is a class of steam locomotives built for the Victorian Railways 2 ft 6 in gauge branch lines by Beyer, Peacock & Company. They were introduced in 1926 to increase train sizes and reduce losses on these lines. Their tractive effort was comparable to the most powerful branch line locomotives on the Victorian Railways 5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm), the K class.
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 101 years ago, in 1925.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1925
- number built
- 2
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Beyer, Peacock and Company
- operators
- Victorian Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 762 mm narrow gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-6-0+0-6-2
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7927269, Wikipedia: Victorian Railways G class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.