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Australian Standard Garratt
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Clyde Engineering· from 1943· locomotive class
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Australian Standard Garratt number 33: Own work by Zzrbiker· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Australian Standard Garratt locomotive no G26, Western Australian Government Railways, 1943: J B Goggs· Public domain
- 3. Australian Standard Garratt No. G33 at the Bellarine Railway - May 2014 - 01: nzsteam· CC BY 2.0
- 4. Australian Standard Garratt No. G33 at the Bellarine Railway - May 2014 - 02: nzsteam· CC BY 2.0
- 5. Australian Standard Garratt No. G33 at the Bellarine Railway - May 2014 - 03: nzsteam· CC BY 2.0
- 6. Australian Standard Garratt No. G33 at the Bellarine Railway - May 2014 - 04: nzsteam· CC BY 2.0
- 7. Australian Standard Garratt No. G33 at the Bellarine Railway - May 2014 - 05: nzsteam· CC BY 2.0
- 8. Australian Standard Garratt No. G33 at the Bellarine Railway - May 2014 - 06: nzsteam· CC BY 2.0
- 9. Australian Standard Garratt No. G33 at the Bellarine Railway - May 2014 - 07: nzsteam· CC BY 2.0
- 10. Australian Standard Garratt No. G33 at the Bellarine Railway - May 2014 - 08: nzsteam· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The Australian Standard Garratt (ASG) is a Garratt articulated steam locomotive designed and built in Australia during World War II for use on the 1067 mm (3 ft 6 in) narrow-gauge railway systems owned by the Australian states of Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia. After the war, ASGs operated in South Australia and at the Fyansford Cement Works railway in Victoria.
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 83 years ago, in 1943.
- 25.9 m long: about 6 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
- 1943–1945
- in service from
- 1943
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 57
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Clyde Engineering, Islington Railway Workshops, Midland Railway Workshops, Newport Workshops
- operators
- Emu Bay Railway, Fyansford Cement Works Railway, Queensland Rail, South Australian Railways, Tasmanian Government Railways, Western Australian Government Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-8-2+2-8-4
- length
- 25.9 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q782737, Wikipedia: Australian Standard Garratt (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.