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South Australian Railways Z class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by James Martin and Company· from 1894· class of 10 Australian 4-4-0 locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Steam locomotive No Z 190 built by James Martin: Lionel Kingsborough Collection· Public domain
what is it?
The South Australian Railways Z class was a class of 4-4-0 steam locomotives operated by the South Australian 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 132 years ago, in 1894.
- Weighs about as much as 8 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 12.5 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 62 years (1894–1956).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1894
- in service from
- 1894
- retired
- 1956
- status
- retired
- number built
- 10
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- James Martin and Company, Islington Railway Workshops
- operators
- South Australian Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-4-0 2′B 3
- length
- 12.5 m
- weight
- 50 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q23046003, Wikipedia: South Australian Railways Z class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.