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Queensland C16 class locomotive
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Evans, Anderson, Phelan & Co· from 1903· class of 152 Australian 4-8-0 locomotives
5 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Steam locomotive class C16, 1907 (4732518946): State Library of Queensland, Australia· No restrictions
- 2. ITM3579671 LOCO C16 CLASS LOCOMOTIVE No 395 IPSWICH NUTTS PROTOTYPE Dept No.QSA0213 X2720 no 300: Queensland State Archives· CC0
- 3. ITM3579674 C16 CLASS LOCO No 615 IPSWICH and PASSENGER CARRIAGES MAIL TRAIN Dept No.QSA0216 X2728 no 293: Queensland State Archives· CC0
- 4. ITM3579678 LOCO C16 CLASS LOCOMOTIVE No 395 IPSWICH NUTTS PROTOTYPE Dept No.QSA0220 X2721 no 287: Queensland State Archives· CC0
- 5. ITM3580360 LOCO C16 CLASS LOCOMOTIVE No 395 IPSWICH NUTTS PROTOTYPE Dept No.QSA0902 E218: Queensland State Archives· CC0
what is it?
The Queensland Railways C16 class locomotive is a class of 4-8-0 steam locomotives that was operated by the Queensland Railways.
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 123 years ago, in 1903.
- 15.9 m long: about 4 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
- 1903–1918
- in service from
- 1903
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 152
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Evans, Anderson, Phelan & Co, Walkers Limited, Toowoomba Foundry, North Ipswich Railway Workshops
- operators
- Queensland Rail
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-8-0
- length
- 15.9 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7270911, Wikipedia: Queensland C16 class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.
