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Victorian Railways N class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by North British Locomotive Company· from 1925· class of 83 Australian 2-8-2 locomotives
4 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. N432 Newport Railway Museum locomotive 25-09-2022: Fork99· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. Victorian Railways N class locomotive No. 432 at the Newport Railway Museum - July 2022: Michael Coghlan· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 3. Victorian Railways N class locomotive No. 432 at the Newport Railway Museum - May 2017 - 01: nzsteam· CC BY 2.0
- 4. Victorian Railways N class locomotive No. 432 at the Newport Railway Museum - May 2017 - 02: nzsteam· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The N class is a branch line steam locomotive that ran on the Victorian Railways (VR) from 1925 to 1966. A development of the successful K class 2-8-0, it was the first VR locomotive class designed for possible conversion from 5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm) to 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge.
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 101 years ago, in 1925.
- Weighs about as much as 21 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 20.4 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 41 years (1925–1966).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1925
- in service from
- 1925
- retired
- 1966
- status
- retired
- number built
- 83
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- North British Locomotive Company, Newport Workshops
- operators
- South Australian Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,600 mm Irish broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-8-2
- length
- 20.4 m
- weight
- 126 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7927279, Wikipedia: Victorian Railways N class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.