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Victorian Railways C class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Newport Workshops· from 1918· class of 26 Australian 2-8-0 locomotives
3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. C1locomotive: Unknown author Unknown author· Public domain
- 2. Victorian Railways C Class Locomotive No. 10 at the Newport Railway Museum - May 2017 - 01: nzsteam· CC BY 2.0
- 3. Victorian Railways C Class Locomotive No. 10 at the Newport Railway Museum - May 2017 - 02: nzsteam· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The C class is a mainline goods locomotive of the 2-8-0 'Consolidation' type that ran on the Victorian Railways between 1918 and 1962. Although its original design had some key shortcomings, a number of improvements were made over the class' long career on the VR, many of which were subsequently applied to other locomotive classes on the system.
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 108 years ago, in 1918.
- Weighs about as much as 22 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 19.8 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 44 years (1918–1962).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1918–1926
- in service from
- 1918
- retired
- 1962
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 26
- kind
- steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Newport Workshops
- designer
- W. M. Shannon
- operators
- Victorian Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,600 mm Irish broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-8-0
- length
- 19.8 m
- weight
- 130 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7927262, Wikipedia: Victorian Railways C class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.