#2902
3830
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Eveleigh Railway Workshops· from 1949· preserved New South Wales C38 class locomotive
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2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. 3830 (NSW Steam Locomotive) 2005: Tomtrainboy1991 at English Wikipedia· CC BY 3.0
- 2. 3830 steamfest 2008: Barnesy Barnes· CC BY 3.0
what is it?
3830 (pronounced Thirty-eight thirty) is a 4-6-2 steam locomotive operated by the New South Wales Government Railways between 1949 and 1967. It has been preserved by the Powerhouse Museum and is based at the NSW Rail Museum, Thirlmere. It was operational from 1997 until 2009 and was scheduled to return to service in 2016 before the need for more extensive boiler repairs was discovered.
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 77 years ago, in 1949.
- Served for 18 years (1949–1967).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1949
- in service from
- 1949
- retired
- 1967
- status
- retired
- number built
- 30
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Eveleigh Railway Workshops
- operators
- New South Wales Government Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-6-2
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q4635943, Wikipedia: 3830 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.