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New South Wales Z16 class locomotive

🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Dübs and Company· class of 24 Australian 4-4-0 locomotives

New South Wales Z16 class locomotive, photo 1 of 1
1/1 NSWGR Archives· Public domain

what is it?

The New South Wales Z16 class (formerly D.261 class and D.334 class) was a class of steam locomotives built for the New South Wales Government Railways in Australia. The Z16 class were an amalgamation under the New South Wales Government Railways 1924 locomotive renumbering of two previous classes, the D261 and D334 classes. The D261 class were renumbered as 1601-1624 and the D334 class as 1625–1641.

who runs it

base stats

  • built 24made in total

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
—
status
retired
number built
24
kind
Steam
traction
steam
origin
🇦🇺 Australia
builders
Dübs and Company
designer
Beyer, Peacock & Company
operators
New South Wales Government Railways
top speed
—
power
—
gauge
1,435 mm standard gauge
wheel arrangement
4-4-0

From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.

Sources: Wikidata Q16926701, Wikipedia: New South Wales Z16 class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.

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