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Victorian Railways M class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Beyer, Peacock and Company· class of 22 Australian 4-4-0T (later 4-4-2T) locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Victorian Railways M Class Steam Locomotive Number 40: Victorian Railways· Public domain
what is it?
The Victorian Railways M class were 4-4-0T (tank) steam locomotives for suburban passenger service in Melbourne, a pattern engine being supplied in 1879 by Beyer, Peacock & Company. Twenty-one further locomotives of this model were built by the Phoenix Foundry of Ballarat, in three batches, from 1884 to 1886. They were numbered 40 (pattern engine), 210-240 (even numbers only), and 312-320 (evens only), and were classed M in 1886.
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.
spec sheet
- built
- —
- number built
- 22
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Beyer, Peacock and Company, Phoenix Foundry
- operators
- Victorian Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,600 mm Irish broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-4-0T
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7927277, Wikipedia: Victorian Railways M class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.