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Queensland 6D13½ class locomotive
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by North Ipswich Railway Workshops· from 1904· class of 6 Australian 0-6-0ST locomotives, later rebuilt as 0-6-0 and reclassified B13½
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Pompey B13 1-2 Ipswich: Reef Thomspon· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. ITM3579633 6D13 1-2 CLASS LOCOMOTIVE No 401 IPSWICH LOCO and DRIVER-6 D 13 1-2 Dept No.QSA0175 X2684 no 338: Queensland State Archives· CC0
what is it?
The Queensland Railways 6D13½ class locomotive was a class of 0-6-0T steam locomotives operated by the Queensland 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 122 years ago, in 1904.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1904–1905
- in service from
- 1904
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 6
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- North Ipswich Railway Workshops
- operators
- Queensland Rail
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-6-0T (as built)
- length
- 7.9 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q28126928, Wikipedia: Queensland 6D13½ class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.