#1963
Victorian Railways K class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Newport Workshops· from 1922· class of 53 Australian 2-8-0 locomotives
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10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. K 100 Builders Photo: Victorian Railways· Public domain
- 2. Victorian Railways K class locomotive No. 165 at the Newport Railway Museum - May 2017 - 01: nzsteam· CC BY 2.0
- 3. Victorian Railways K class locomotive No. 165 at the Newport Railway Museum - May 2017 - 02: nzsteam· CC BY 2.0
- 4. Steam Locomotive K100 at Mernda station, November 2022: PEPSI697· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. K 153 at Castlemaine Station (28983130206): Rob Deutscher from Melbourne, Australia· CC BY 2.0
- 6. Maldon to Castlemaine Steam Train 2018: SurveyorMJF· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. A VLine trains passes a steam locomotive at Pakenham: Simon, Mandy, Joshua, Bradley and baby Karla Yeo from Pakenham, Australia· CC BY 2.0
- 8. Preserved Victorian Railways locomotives Y419 and K153 and train at Newport Workshops: Max Thum· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 9. D3 658 and K 183: Alzaar Ahmed· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 10. K Class Steam Locomotive K183 trails the Steamrail Victoria tour from Newport to Laverton at Westona railway station Platform 2 (29 March 2026): PEPSI697· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The K class is a branch line steam locomotive that ran on Victorian Railways in Australia from 1922 to 1979. Although its design was entirely conventional and its specifications unremarkable, the K class was in practice a remarkably versatile and dependable locomotive. It went on to outlast every other class of steam locomotive in regular service on the VR, and no fewer than 21 examples of the 53 originally built have survived into preservation.
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 104 years ago, in 1922.
- Weighs about as much as 11 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 18.3 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 57 years (1922–1979).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1922–1946
- in service from
- 1922
- retired
- 1979
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 53
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Newport Workshops
- operators
- Victorian Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,600 mm Irish broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-8-0
- length
- 18.3 m
- weight
- 63 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7927275, Wikipedia: Victorian Railways K class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.