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New South Wales Z24 class locomotive
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Dübs and Company· from 1889· class of 25 Australian 2-6-0 locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. NSWGR Class Z24 Locomotive: NSWGR Archives· Public domain
what is it?
The Z24 class (formerly B55 class) is a two-cylinder, non-condensing, saturated 2-6-0 ‘ Mogul‘ type steam engine built by Dübs & Company for the New South Wales Government Railways of Australia.
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 137 years ago, in 1889.
- Weighs about as much as 8 African elephants (~6 t each).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1889
- retired
- 1960
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 25
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Dübs and Company
- operators
- New South Wales Government Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- wheel arrangement
- 2-6-0
- weight
- 47.2 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7011823, Wikipedia: New South Wales Z24 class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.