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New South Wales M36 class locomotive
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Mort's Dock· from 1870· class of 8 Australian 0-4-2 locomotives
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3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. NSWGR Locomotive M.36 Mixed Class: NSWGR Archives· Public domain
- 2. NSWR McConnell (of LNWR) Class M36 0-4-2 No.78 - 28074784371: hugh llewelyn· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 3. NSWR McConnell (of LNWR) Class M36 0-4-2: hugh llewelyn· CC BY-SA 2.0
what is it?
The M36 class is a class of steam locomotives built for the New South Wales Government Railways in Australia. The class was redesignated as the X10 class later during its service.
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 156 years ago, in 1870.
- Served for 34 years (1870–1904).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1870
- in service from
- 1870
- retired
- 1904
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 8
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Mort's Dock, Eveleigh Railway Workshops
- operators
- New South Wales Government Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- wheel arrangement
- 0-4-2
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16926672, Wikipedia: New South Wales M36 class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.